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MR.  DWIGHTS  SERMON 

BEFORE    THE 

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June  1839,  with  the 

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The  Church,  the  Pillar  and  Ground  of  the  Truth. 


SERMON, 


DELIVERED  IN  BRUNSWICK,  JUNE  26,  1839, 


BEFORE    THE 


MAINE  MISSIONARY  SOCIETY, 


S'IHiniIiS,^,°SEO®S?l!3)  AKTWH^EI&g.&IftTo 


BY  WILLIAM  T.   DWIGHT, 

PASTOR  OF  THE  THIRD  CONGREGATIONAL  CHURCH  IN  PORTLAND. 


PORTLAND : 

ALFRED    MERRILL,    PRINTER. 

18  3  9. 


THIRTY-SECOND  ANNIVERSARY. 

The  Maine  Missionary  Society  held  its  Thirty-Second  Annual  Meet- 
ing, in  the  Congregational  Meeting  House  in  Brunswick,  on  Wednesday, 
June  26,  1839— Rev.  William  T.  Dwight,  in  the  absence  of  the  Presi- 
dent and  Vice  President,  was  chosen  President  pro  tern.  The  meeting 
was  opened  with  prayer,  by  Rev.  Dr.  Cogswell,  of  Boston. 

The  Treasurer,  Woodburv  Storer,  Esq.  presented  his  Report,  certi- 
fied by  William  Swan,  and  William  C.  Mitchell,  Esqs.,  Auditors, 
which  was  accepted. 

The  Annual  Report,  which  had  been  prepared  by  Rev.  Eliphalet 
Gillett,  D.  D.,  Corresponding  Secretary,  was,  at  his  request,  read  by 
Rev.  Benjamin  Tappan,  D.  D. 

On  motion  of  Rev.  Joseph  R.  Munsell,  of  East  Brewer,  seconded  by 
Rev.  William  L.  Mather,  of  Wiscasset : 

Resolved,  That  the  Report  of  the  Trustees  be  aceepted  and  published, 
under  the  direction  of  the  Trustees. 

On  motion  of  Rev.  Professor  Pond,  of  Bangor,  seconded  by  Rev. 
Charles  Walker,  of  Brattleboro',  Vt. : 

Resolved,  That,  during  the  current  year,  the  Maine  Missionary  Society 
ought  to  be  able  to  afford  efficient  help  to  all  those  feeble  churches  within 
the  State,  which,  in  the  judgment  of  the  Trustees,  are  proper  objects  of 
its  beneficence. 

On  motion  of  Rev.  Joel  Parker,  of  New  York,  delegate  from  the 
American  Home  Missionary  Society,  seconded  by  Rev.  Robert  Baird, 
lately  from  Paris,  in  France  : 

Whereas  the  A.  H.  M.  S.,  encourages  the  permanent  settlement  of  min- 
isters of  the  Gospel  as  pastors;  and  whereas  it  furnishes  employment  of 
the  most  extensive,  safe,  and  efficient  character  for  the  activity  of  the 
church,  at  the  present  day  ;  therefore, 

Resolved,  That  this  society,  as  a  branch  of  that  institution,  is  entitled 
to  the  warm  encouragement  and  support  of  this  whole  community. 

The  Annual  Sermon  before  the  Society  was  preached  by  the  Rev.  Wil- 
liam T.  Dwight,  of  Portland.  Prayer  before  sermon  was  offered  by  Rev. 
Jotham  Sewall,  Senior. 

Voted,  That  Rev.  Jonathan  B.  Condit  be  a  Committee,  to  present  the 
thanks  of  this  Society  to  the  Rev.  William  T.  Dwight,  for  his  sermon 
before  them  this  day,  and  to  request  a  copy  for  publication. 


OFFICERS 

Of  the  Maine  Missionary  Society,  elected  June  26,  1839. 

Rev.  William  T.  Dwight,  Portland,  President. 
Rufus  K.  Page,  Esq.,  Hallowell,  Vice  President. 
Rev.  Eliphalet  Gillett,  D.  D.,   Corresponding  and 
Recording  Secretary. 

Woodbury  Storer,  Esq.,  Portland,  Treasurer. 

TRUSTEES* 

The  President,  ex  officio. 

Rev.  E.  Gillett,  D.  D. 

Rev.  David  Thdrston,  Winthrop. 

Rev.  Benjamin  Tafpan,  D.  D.,  Augusta. 

Rev.  John  W.  Ellingwood,  Bath. 

Rev.  David  M.  Mitchell,  Waldoboro'. 

Rev.  Asa  Cummings,  Portland. 

Rev.  Swan  L.  Pomrqy,  Baugor. 

Rev.  Thaddeus  Pomerov,  Gorham. 

Woodbury  Storer,  Esq. 

David  Donlap,  Esq.,  Brunswick. 

Executive  Committee. — Rev.  Messrs.  Gillett,  Thurston,  Tappan,  El- 
lingwood, Cummings  and  Storer. 

Auditors. — William  Swan  and  William  C.  Mitchell,  Esqs. 

The  next  meeting  of  the  Society  is  to  be  holden  at  Hallowell,  on 
the  fourth  Wednesday  of  June,  1840.  Rev.  Elijah  Jones,  first  preach- 
er ;  Rev.  George  E.  Adams,  his  substitute. 


SERJIOV 


I.  TIMOTHY,  3:  15. 
— "The  Church    of    the  living    God,  the    pillar  and  ground  of 


THE    TRUTH. 


Adopting  the  views  of  those  commentators,  who,  in  their 
construction  of  the  passage,  would  unite,  instead  of  disso- 
ciating, these  two  sentences,  I  would  remark,  that  to  the 
phrase  which  forms  the  first  sentence — "the  Church  of  the 
living  God" — we  are  evidently  to  attach  no  other  significa- 
tion than  that  of  the  Church  universal,  or  the  whole  body  of 
true  believers.  Words  as  comprehensive  and  emphatic  as 
these,  restricted  in  their  import  by  no  local  nor  other  sub- 
ordinate application,  are  never  used  in  the  New  Testament 
except  as  a  description  of  the  universal  body  of  real  disci- 
ples, of  the  Church,  in  the  broadest  and  noblest  meaning  of 
the  term.  It  is  not  then  of  the  local  church  at  Ephesus,  the 
economy  of  whose  concerns  had  been  temporarily  entrusted 
to  Timothy,  that  the  apostle  here  speaks  ;  nor  of  the  church 
of  Rome,  whose  impudent  pretensions  were  not  advanced 
until  many  centuries  after  the  date  of  this  epistle ;  nor  of 
any  modern  church  which  is  politically  allied  to  the  state, 
a  portion  of  whose  ministers  are  lords  temporal  as  well  as 
spiritual ;  nor  of  any  other  ecclesiastical  body,  which,  while 
disclaiming  all  political  power,  asserts  its  organization  to  be 
truly  primitive  and  apostolical.  It  is  regenerated  and  sanc- 
tified men  universally,  considered  as  forming  a  collective 
mass,  who  are  here  styled  ''the  Church  of  the  living  God." 
Or  if  we  are  to  admit  of  any  other  interpretation  than  this, 
it  is  the  whole  body  of  visible,  professing  believers,  who  may 


G 

claim  this  lofty  and  hallowed  title  ;  and  this  claim  is  to  be 
allowed  solely  on  the  ground,  that  within  their  pale  are  em- 
braced almost  all  true  believers. 

What  import  then  are  we  to  attach  to  the  leading  phrase 
in  the  second  sentence,  "the  truth  ?"  Plainly  it  is  not  truth 
in  the  abstract  which  Paul  intends,  whether  physical  or  met- 
aphysical, mathematical  or  moral,  for  in  this  sense  truth 
rests  not  on  the  Church  as  its  pillar  and  ground ;  but  it  is 
truth  as  divinely  revealed  to  mankind  and  embodied  in  the 
gospel,  it  is  the  system  of  true  religion  which  is  there  an- 
nounced to  us  for  the  regulation  of  our  faith  and  practice. 
This  is  truth  the  purest,  most  authoritative  and  exalted,  with 
it  the  Church  as  a  divine  institution  is  indissolubly  connect- 
ed, it  is  throughout  the  New  Testament  uniformly  asserted 
to  be  esssential  truth  in  contradistinction  to  all  other  relig- 
ious systems  ;  we  cannot  doubt  accordingly  that  it  is  in  this 
passage  termed,  "the  truth."  It  needs  only  be  added  that 
when  the  apostle  thus  describes  it,  he  intends  it  as  exhibited 
in  the  precise  form  in  which  it  was  revealed,  and  which  it 
bore  at  the  moment  when  this  epistle  was  written :  it  is  the 
truth,  as  diffused  throughout  the  whole  gospel,  and  not  as 
professedly  concentrated  in  creeds,  or  confessions  of  faith, 
or  any  human  abstracts  whatever. 

Of  the  truth  the  Church  is,  "the  pillar  and  ground."  By 
this  repetition  of  the  idea  it  is  evidently  intended  that  the 
Church  is  the  firm  basis,  the  sure  support,  of  the  truth  ;  and 
as  the  assertion  is  made  without  any  qualification,  that  such 
will  constantly  and  perpetually  be  the  fact.  During  the 
continuance  of  the  Christian  dispensation  and  until  the  close 
of  time  the  truth,  or,  as  a  substantially  convertible  term,  the 
gospel,  is  to  be  sustained  among  men  and  ultimately  diffu- 
sed throughout  the  world  by  the  Church  of  God. 

In  accordance  with  this  exposition  of  the  passage  I  shall 
now  proceed  to  consider,  as  the  subject  of  the  ensuing  dis- 
course, some  of  the  particulars  in  which  the  Church  may  be 


regarded  as  the  pillar  and  ground  of  the  truth.  And  the 
Church  may  claim  tins  title : 

I.     As  the  perpetual  Depositary  of  the  truth. 

By  this  is  meant  that  God  has  entrusted  the  truth  to  the 
custody  of  the  Church,  that  He  has  committed  to  her  His 
gospel  from  time  to  time  as  a  sacred,  inestimable  deposit 
which  she  was  perpetually  to  retain.  This  bequest  has  been 
in  every  age  so  precious  in  His  own  view,  that  He  has  nev- 
er been  willing  to  dispose  of  it  in  any  other  maitner. 

For  it  is  not  one  of  the  ordinary  bounties  of  His  provi- 
dence which  has  been  thus  consigned.  The  air,  the  light, 
water  and  heat,  though  essential  to  our  comfort  and  exist- 
ence on  earth,  minister  solely  to  our  corporeal  wants,  to  the 
nature  which  we  possess  in  alliance  with  the  animal,  and 
these  gifts  were  accordingly  too  common,  too  subordinate, 
to  merit  this  peculiar  designation.  Neither  was  it  a  monu- 
ment of  mere  human  wisdom,  which  the  researches  of  phi- 
losophers or  the  sagacity  of  statesmen  has  erected,  that  was 
to  be  disposed  of.  Codes  of  laws,  schemes  of  civil  polity, 
systems  of  morals,  poetical  and  barbarous  mythologies,  have 
been  devised  without  number  during  the  first  four  thousand 
years  of  our  race  ;  but  they  have  been  all  accounted,  as  to 
their  bearing  on  man's  eternal  interests,  but  foolishness  with 
God,  and  accordingly,  while  here  and  there  a  scattered  re- 
cord has  floated  down  the  stream  of  time,  He  has  suffered 
the  mighty  mass  to  sink  irretrievably  into  the  gulf  of  obliv- 
ion. Neither  was  it  a  body  of  sacred  traditions  however 
authentic  and  accurate,  of  which  we  speak,  which  one  race 
of  ancient  patriarchs  and  saints  may  have  transmitted  to 
another  during  many  successive  centuries.  Such  a  collec- 
tion, if  it  in  fact  ever  existed,  was  doubtless  valuable  to  its 
possessors,  but  it  was  to  be  superseded  by  fuller,  clearer  rev- 
elations, and  it  was  therefore  suffered  finally  to  perish.  Had 
the  gift  of  God  to  man  which  we  are  contemplating  been 
but  such  as  these,  it  would  have  descended  like  air  and  light 


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upon  the  brutes,  no  less  than  upon  our  race,  or  some  dubi- 
ous fragment  of  the  record,  mutilated  and  corrupted,  might 
have  still  survived,  or  after  having  accomplished  its  purpose 
it  would  long  ages  since  have  been  forgotten  forever ;  but 
the  Church  would  never  have  been  made  its  depositary. 

But  this  gift  was  "the  truth,"  the  truth ;  it  was  the  sys- 
tem of  true  religion  ;  it  was  the  only  scheme  of  faith  and 
practice  for  man  as  a  fallen,  but  an  immortal  being.  It  was 
to  contain  the  whole  account  of  God,  of  His  character,  gov- 
ernment and  will ;  it  was  to  be  the  record  and  that  infalli- 
ble, of  His  immediate,  personal  communications  to  mankind. 
Such  a  gift  is  immeasurably  precious,  and  it  could  be  there- 
fore entrusted  to  but  one  depositary — the  Church. 

A  portion  of  the  truth  was  thus  entrusted  in  the  earliest 
ages.  The  Church,  as  it  existed  in  the  antediluvian  patri- 
archs, received,  as  there  is  reason  to  suppose,  successive 
communications  from  God,  which  were  subsequently  trans- 
mitted through  Noah  and  Shem  to  Abraham,  and  were  at 
length  under  divine  dictation  incorporated  in  their  present 
form  by  Moses.  Thus  the  stupendous  narrative  of  the  cre- 
ation with  all  its  glories  and  of  the  apostasy  with  all  its  woes, 
the  story  of  the  deluge  and  of  the  re-peopling  of  the  earth, 
the  account  of  Abraham  as  the  father  of  the  faithful  and  the 
ancestor  of  the  dimly  announced  Messiah,  were  imparted, 
not  to  Egyptian  priests  and  magicians,  not  to  the  astrono- 
mers of  Chaldea  and  the  magi  of  Persia,  not  to  the  shep- 
herds of  Arabia  and  Palestine,  but  to  the  Church.  Philoso- 
phy was  to  be  suffered  to  speculate  and  invent  its  theories 
respecting  these  primordia  rerum  of  man,  science  in  its 
researches  was  to  remove  the  rust  of  later  centuries — only  to 
encounter  the  entire  corrosion  of  more  ancient  monuments, 
scepticism  was  to  babble  its  conjectures  and  sport  its  contra- 
dictions ;  but  the  truth  respecting  them  was  to  be  entrusted 
solely  to  the  Church,  and  to  be  received  by  the  world  from 
the  Church  alone. — As  another  portion  of  this  sacred  trust, 


the  Law  was  next  communicated ;  and  we  intend  here,  not 
merely  the  symbolical  and  shadowy  ritual  of  the  Jews,  not 
simply  the  civil  and  political  code  of  the  nation — which  has 
proved  the  storehouse  for  all  enlightened  legislation  and  ra- 
tional liberty  to  modern  times,  but  the  great  statutes  of  Je- 
hovah's empire,  the  perfect  standard  of  moral  obligation  to 
God,  to  our  fellow  men,  and   to  ourselves.     These,  as  an- 
nounced with  a  divine  precision  in  the  two  great  Command- 
ments, as  constituting  the  first  and  second  table  of  the  Dec- 
alogue, or  as  expanded  into  the  numberless  precepts  of  the 
last  four  books  of  the  Pentateuch,  were  committed  to  the 
same  Depositary. — And  then  the  Prophecies,  either  as  in- 
terspersed throughout  the  history  of  this  singular  people,  or 
as  appended  to  that  history  and   forming  an  independent 
revelation,  were  subsequently  entrusted,  as  still  another  por- 
tion of  the  truth.     The  happy  and  holy  destiny  which  yet 
awaits  the  Jews  as  a  nation,  and  the  ultimate  spiritual  tri- 
umphs of  the  Church  over  the  pride  and  power,  the  philoso- 
phy and  enmity,  of  the  world  were  thus  revealed ;  and  scat- 
tered through  this  vast  compass  of  revelations,  as  sunbeams 
interlace  a  western  cloud  and  impart  to  it  all  its  glory,  were 
constantly  to  be  read  the  predictions  respecting  the  incar- 
nation, sufferings,  atoning  death  and  glorification  of  the  Re- 
deemer.— And  then,  when  the   fulness  of  time  had  come, 
another  and  the  final  portion  of  the   truth  was  received. 
The  gospel  in  its  dawn,  in  its  morning  beams,  and  in  its 
fast  ascending  splendors,  was  now  succeeded  by  the  gospel 
in  its  noon-day  glory.     The  Redeemer  became  in  fact  in- 
carnate, and  brought  in  through   the  cross  an  everlasting 
righteousness  ;    and  scarcely  was  this  transcendant  work 
achieved,  before  apostles  and  evangelists  as  the  amanuenses 
of  inspiration  recorded  the  wondrous  narrative  of  their  Lord 
with  His  precepts  and  counsels,  and   then  received   those 
fresh  communications  from  His  Spirit  in  the  Epistles,  which 
render  the  sacred  volume  complete  and  perfect. 


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It  was  thus,  that  the  truth  in  its  successive  portions  was 
deposited  with  the  Church  ;  not  a  chapter,  nor  paragraph, 
nor  sentence,  of  the  divine  record  was  originally  confided 
but  to  a  member  of  the  Church,  who  received  it  as  her  prop- 
erty, and  to  be  surrendered  to  her  custody.  No  ancient 
seer  nor  bard,  no  law-giver  nor  warrior  over  the  wide  earth, 
whose  name  was  not  enrolled  in  the  Church,  however  tow- 
ering his  genius  or  radiant  his  fame,  was  entrusted  with  this 
deposit  for  a  moment,  was  permitted  to  introduce  a  sentence 
or  vary  an  idea. 

The  great  design  which  has  shaped  this  immense  course 
of  providence  is  every  where  apparent,  that  the  truth  should 
be  sacredly  preserved ;  that  one  perpetually  changing,  yet 
perpetually  subsisting,  body  should  keep  this  inestimable 
deposit  entire  and  uncorrupted  amid  the  thousand  systems 
of  paganism  and  scepticism  that  were  destined  to  overrun 
the  world.  Whatever  calamities  the  Church  in  her  individ- 
ual members  was  to  suffer,  whatever  mutations  as  to  her 
forms  or  essential  interests  she  was  to  undergo,  and  during 
all  coming  time,  she  was  to  be  a  faithful  depositary,  and 
thus  the  pathway  of  communicatiion  was  to  remain  ever 
open  between  man  and  Ged. 

And  this  momentous  deposit,  I  would  add,  is  still  con- 
tinued. From  the  apostolic  age  till  the  present  hour  the 
truth  has  been  consigned,  not  to  cardinals,  nor  statesmen,  nor 
monarchs,  but  to  the  Church  ;  to  her  affection,  her  duty, 
her  vigilance,  and  to  none  other.  From  the  burden  of  this 
charge,  even  were  she  to  desire  it,  she  can  never  be  exempt- 
ed ;  it  rests  upon  her,  and  will  ever  rest,  until  the  judgment 
morning. 

In  her  relation  then  as  a  perpetual  Depositary,  the  Church 
is  the  pillar  and  ground  of  the  truth,  God  has  ordained 
her  to  be  in  every  age  its  firm  support,  it  seeks  not,  it  ac- 
knowledges not,  any  other.     Had  a  different  depositary  been 


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selected  or  the  Church  proved  faithless,  where  would  have 
been  the  truth  and  its  interests  now  ? 

II.  As  affording  a  constant  practical  illustration  of 
the  truth,  in  the  lives  of  her  members. 

God's  great  design  in  giving  the  gospel,  so  far  as  this 
world  is  concerned,  must  be,  that  its  system  of  faith  and 
duty  should  be  exemplified  among  men,  that  its  eternal 
rules  of  holiness  should  be  actually  obeyed.  Every  theory 
of  mechanics  or  civil  polity  or  morals  which  is  not  in  its  na- 
ture reducible  to  practice,  is  inherently  worthless,  it  is  a 
cloud-built  castle  and  nothing  more  ;  and  if  it  is  not  actually 
reduced  to  practice,  it  is  in  fact  worthless,  whatever  may  be 
its  nature.  Nor  is  this  less  true  of  the  whole  system  of  the 
gospel.  If  the  infinite  Being  whom  it  reveals  sustains  no 
actual  relations  to  myself,  if  I  owe  no  practical  duties  to 
Him,  what  interest  ought  I  to  feel,  can  I  feel,  in  His  char- 
acter or  government  or  will ;  and  if  such  were  to  be  univer- 
sally the  case,  would  any  ties  unite  Him  to  men  or  angels 
or  the  moral  universe  ? 

As  certainly  then  as  we  possess  the  gospel,  as  God  has 
entrusted  the  truth  to  the  Church,  so  certainly  must  it  be 
His  design  that  its  religion  should  be  practically  exemplifi- 
ed in  all  its  numberless  relations.  A  satisfactory  demon- 
stration of  its  true  nature,  of  its  perfect  excellence,  can  be 
thus  given  to  the  universe,  and  it  can  be  given  in  no  other 
manner.  This  is  the  manner  in  which  God  evinces  His 
own  boundless  perfections.  It  is  through  His  infinite  effi- 
ciency, through  His  relations  to  His  creatures  as  the  supreme 
Agent,  that  He  challenges  their  ceaseless  obedience  and 
love ;  all  His  moral  attributes  as  the  Scriptures  describe 
them  are  those  of  benevolence  and  beneficence  towards  His 
creatures,  not  an  allusion  is  made  to  any  attribute  denoting 
His  incomprehensible  relations  to  Himself  alone.  Were 
the  gospel  then  merely  a  combination  of  profound  or  gor- 
geous hypotheses,  or  were  it  not  in  fact  illustrated  in  the 


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lives  of  men,  we  should  be  assured  that  it  were  not  the  gift 
of  God  but  a  worthless  imposture  ;  and  as  the  Church  does 
constantly  afford  this  illustration,  she  becomes  the  pillar  and 
ground  of  the  truth. 

The  Church  practically  illustrates  for  example,  the  holi- 
ness which  the  truth  prescribes.  I  use  this  word  in  the 
sense  of  moral  excellence  or  conformity  to  the  divine  will, 
whether  we  refer  to  the  commencement  of  the  Christian's 
life,  in  his  acts  of  repentance  and  faith,  or  to  his  subsequent 
course  of  evangelical  obedience  ;  whether  we  intend  the 
performance  of  his  duties  towards  God,  or  his  fellow  men, 
or  himself.  Repentance  and  faith  constitute  the  first  step 
in  the  return  of  sinful  man  to  God,  without  which  such  a 
return  is  impracticable,  and  which  the  truth  accordingly  im- 
peratively prescribes.  Who  then  actually  bow  before  the 
mercy  seat  in  filial  contrition,  and  there  plead  Christ's  ato- 
ning sacrifice  as  the  appointed  channel  of  God's  forgiveness 
and  favor?  Is  it  the  man  of  the  world?  Is  it  the  idolater 
of  wealth,  or  the  haughty  noble,  the  sceptical  scholar,  the 
giddy  beauty,  or  the  animated  drudge  who  labors  and  lives 
only  for  others ;  or  is  it,  universally  and  exclusively,  the  in- 
dividual members  of  the  Church  ?  Or  if  we  seek  for  this 
exhibition  of  holiness  in  a  life  of  evangelical  obedience,  for 
gratitude  to  God,  for  submission  to  His  providential  will,  for 
reverence  towards  His  majesty,  for  heartfelt  complacency  in 
His  perfections ;  if  we  seek  for  daily  confidence  in  Christ  as 
a  Saviour  and  for  consecration  to  His  service,  or  for  justice 
and  beneficence  in  their  varied  forms  towards  others,  or  for 
daily  humility  and  self-government ;  we  shall  find  them  in 
the  Church  and  throughout  all  her  members,  and  they  are 
absolutely  undiscoverable  elsewhere.  Not  an  act,  not  a 
purpose,  not  an  emotion,  of  holiness  was  ever  known  on 
earth,  except  within  the  Church  of  the  living  God. 

The  Church  thus  illustrates  also,  the  peace  and  joyful 
hope  which  the  truth  professedly  affords.     The  gospel  pre- 


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scribes  not  a  solemn  round  of  heartless  duties,  it  is  not  a 
system  of  Hindoo  maceration  or  Roman  Catholic  penance, 
but  like  the  God  from  whom  it  emanates  it  is  disinterested 
love  :  the  blessedness  which  it  promises,  is  commensurate 
with  the  duties  which  it  enjoins.  Tins  blessedness  com- 
mences on  earth  in  an  habitual  peace  and  in  the  hope  which 
anticipates  eternity,  it  will  be  perfected  in  heaven  in  the 
possession  of  indescribable  joys.  Whose  then  are  the  breasts 
that  are  cheered  by  this  habitual  peace — the  peace  of  for- 
given sin,  of  an  approving  conscience,  of  benevolent  desires 
towards  others  :  whose  path  is  gilded  by  "the  soul's  calm 
sunshine,"  descending  on  them  from  a  paternal  God  and  an 
unchanging  Saviour  ?  Who  behold  the  light  of  heaven 
piercing  through  their  thickest  clouds  of  sorrow,  so  that  nei- 
ther poverty  nor  bereavement,  disease  nor  pain,  disappoint- 
ment nor  ignominy,  can  overwhelm  them  ?  Who  often  live 
amid  the  visions  of  future  glory,  even  now  catching  the  echo 
of  angelic  songs  and  tasting  the  fruits  from  the  tree  of  life  ? 
Are  all  these  worthless  promises,  or  is  their  actual  fulfilment 
certain  ?  The  Church  in  her  own  rich  experience  can  an- 
swer these  interrogatories,  and  the  Church  alone ;  each  of 
her  innumerable  members  lives  upon  this  peace,  and  conso- 
lation and  hope.  They  are  not  a  day  dream,  nor  a  "cun- 
ningly devised  fable,"  but  blessed  realities,  existing  and  il- 
lustrated in  the  consciousness  of  every  believer. 

The  Church  thus  illustrates  also,  the  power  of  the  truth 
over  the  heart.  The  gospel  professes  as  the  instrument  in 
the  hand  of  the  Divine  Spirit,  to  be  able  to  exert  and  actu- 
ally to  exert  an  efficiency  which  is  absolutely  singular,  which 
acknowledges  neither  parallel  nor  resemblance  among  all 
the  displays  of  human  or  created  energy.  It  is  an  efficiency 
of  which  the  result  is  the  regeneration  of  our  moral  nature 
and  its  sanctification  throughout  subsequent  life,  or  the  com- 
mencement and  progressive  augmentation  of  a  new  spir- 
itual existence.     Were  these  assumptions  false,  were  they  a 


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mere  oriental  hyperbole — intentionally  denoting  nothing 
more  than  the  influence  of  the  moralist  in  producing  an  ex- 
ternal reformation  of  manners,  or  were  there  no  actual  illus- 
tration of  such  an  energy — living  and  moving  before  us,  the 
whole  system  of  the  truth  must  fall  unsupported  and  aban- 
doned ;  but  the  Church  in  each  of  her  members  is  such  an 
illustration,  and  she  is  thus  the  pillar  and  ground  of  the 
truth.  Each  of  them  has  been  in  fact  born  again  by  the 
word  of  God,  each  of  them  is  sanctified  through  the  truth, 
each  of  them  thus  evinces  the  gospel  to  be  the  power  of 
God  unto  salvation.  This  change  so  radical,  so  momentous, 
and  to  such  numbers  only  incredible,  is  still  a  matter  of  con- 
stant occurrence,  its  living  subjects  offer  the  testimony  of 
their  own  consciousness,  so  that  there  is  no  more  satisfac- 
tory evidence  of  the  existence  of  a  power  that  causes  the 
ebb  and  flow  of  the  tide  or  the  circuits  of  the  lunar  planet, 
than  of  an  energy  in  the  truth  that  thus  transforms  the  heart. 

III.     As  the  Defender  of  the  truth. 

The  Author  of  the  trutli  when  He  deposited  it  with  the 
Church,  foresaw  that  it  would  need  such  a  defender  against 
the  bitter,  inextinguishable  enmity  that  would  assail  it.  Dark 
as  is  the  display  of  human  depravity  thus  afforded,  nothing 
has  ever  provoked  a  hatred  so  intense  or  been  pursued  with 
corresponding  efforts  for  its  destruction.  The  world  lias 
quietly  endured,  nay  has  cordially  welcomed,  every  false  re- 
ligion and  the  foulest  systems  of  immorality :  ancient  and 
modern  polytheism  in  their  myriad  forms,  the  fictions  of  the 
Arabian  impostor,  the  idolatrous  corruptions  of  popery,  and 
the  dogmas  of  a  brutal  or  philosophical  scepticism,  have  been 
successively  propagated,  and  men  have  gazed  unmoved  if 
not  approving.  But  while  these  exhalations  from  the  pit 
have  enveloped  countries  and  continents  and  scarce  a  note 
of  warning  has  been  sounded,  the  truth  has  been  opposed 
by  embattled  armies  ;  the  axe,  the  faggot,  and  the  dungeons 
of  the  Inquisition  have  awaited  its  adherents ;  science  with 


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its  alleged  discoveries,  sophistry  with  its  wiles,  ridicule  and 
falsehood  with  their  poisoned  darts,  have  been  arrayed  against 
il  ;  the  world  has  been  its  open  or  secret  enemy.  Had  the 
truth  possessed  no  defender,  its  interests  would  long  since 
have  been  destroyed  ;  but  that  Defender  under  God  has 
ever  been  the  Church,  and  she  has  thus  proved  its  pillar  and 
ground. 

The  Church  has  defended  the  truth  against  the  sophis- 
try and  falsehood  of  its  enemies.  This  has  been  one  fa- 
vorite mode  of  assault  from  the  days  of  Celsus  and  Porphyry, 
from  the  age  of  the  Gnostics  and  the  Ebionites.  The  gos- 
pel has  been  alike  impugned  by  the  philosophers  of  Greece 
and  Rome,  by  the  leaders  of  heresy  who  succeeded  them, 
by  the  advocates  of  the  usurpations  of  the  papacy,  by  the 
modern  courtly  infidel,  and  by  the  transcendental  neologist. 
Its  scheme  of  faith  and  morals  has  been  decried,  as  a  mass 
of  inconsistencies  and  absurdities ;  its  origin  has  been  de- 
nied to  be  inspiration,  and  has  been  professedly  traced  to 
the  recollections  of  its  fallible,  or  to  the  fictions  of  its  dis- 
honest, writers  ;  its  simplicity  and  purity  have  been  overlaid 
and  smothered  by  Romish  traditions  ;  its  vital,  transforming 
energy  has  been  diluted  into  sickly  sentimentalism  or  semi- 
pagan  ethics.  History,  the  allegorical  legends  of  Hindostan 
and  China,  the  astronomical  sculptures  of  Egypt,  and  the 
records  notched  in  the  everlasting  rocks,  have  been  all  en- 
listed in  this  warfare,  so  that  from  the  ponderous  tome  down 
to  the  farthing  pamphlet  an  Alexandrian  library  has  been 
written  to  falsify  the  gospel. 

But  they  that  were  for  the  truth  in  this  contest  have  been 
more  than  those  that  were  against  the  truth.  The  Church^ 
has  summoned  in  every  age  the  intellect,  the  learning,  and 
the  piety  of  her  sons  to  this  consecrated  warfare ;  and  as 
this  intellect  has  ever  equalled  and  this  learning  usually  far 
surpassed  those  of  their  antagonists,  victory  has  steadily 
crowned  the  armies  of  the   living  God.     The  poetic  and 


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popular  mythologies  of  Athens  and  Italy  have  been  thus 
rendered  the  jest  of  the  school  boy,  during  the  last  sixteen 
hundred  years  ;  while  the  heresies  that  were  refuted  by  Je- 
rome, Athanasius  and  their  co-adjutors,  have  been  for  many 
ages  forgotten  in  the  grave  of  oblivion,  or,  if  occasionally 
disinterred,  it  has  been  only  to  reveal,  like  an  Egyptian 
mummy,  their  lifelessness  and  deformity.  The  lordly  pre- 
tensions of  the  bishop  of  Rome,  wherever  they  have  lost  the 
support  of  the  civil  government,  have  been  exposed  in  all 
their  insolence  and  emptiness  from  the  days  of  Wicklifte, 
Luther  and  Melanchthon,  so  that  Romanism  has  long  since 
despaired  of  making  any  conversions  but  those  of  ignorance, 
policy  or  fear.  Nor  less  decisive,  after  a  briefer  contest,  has 
been  the  defeat  of  modern  infidelity  ;  its  shallow  learning 
and  flimsy  sophistry  have  been  so  often  worsted  that  the 
sceptic  dares  no  longer  avow  himself,  except  as  he  may  be 
found  in  the  French  geometer  who  rejects  revelation  be- 
cause its  truth  is  not  demonstrated  like  a  problem  of  pure 
mathematics,  or  in  the  brutal  radical  of  our  large  cities  who 
is  waiting  only  for  the  supremacy  of  club  law,  to  compel  a 
universal  Agrarian  division  of  property.  The  last  of  these 
contests  around  the  outworks  of  evangelical  truth,  I  intend 
that  which  has  been  waging  with  German  neologism,  has 
scarcely  demanded,  as  essential  to  the  victory,  any  direct 
participation  on  the  part  of  the  Church.  The  defenders  of 
these  shapeless  and  mutually  hostile  systems  of  error,  are  so 
constantly  changing  their  position  and  their  weapons,  that 
they  can  secure  no  vantage  ground  ;  all  that  seems  neces- 
sary is,  to  permit  them  to  leap  undisturbed  from  one  bog  of 
unbelief  to  another  and  another,  and  then  to  disappear  in  the 
quicksands  that  lie  beneath. — Nor  has  the  citadel  within, 
where  dwells  the  truth  in  its  spiritual  life  and  power  and 
beauty,  been  less  successfully  maintained.  In  other  words, 
the  transforming  doctrines  and  holy  precepts  of  the  gospel 
have  been  not  only  incidentally  and  occasionally  explicitly 


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defended,  as  has  been  just  described,  but  they  have  receiv- 
ed their  full  appropriate  exposition  and  enforcement  in  eve- 
ry form  from  innumerable  pens  ;  so  that  none  but  the  pro- 
pounder  of  arguments  and  objections  already  a  thousand 
times  refuted,  ventures  to  affirm  that  the  religion  of  the  Bi- 
ble ought  not  to  sway  equally  the  intellect  and  the  heart. 

The  Church  has  no  less  effectually  defended  the  truth 
against  the  violence  and  force  of  its  enemies.  This  has 
been  another  favorite  mode  of  assault,  and  far  more  ancient 
than  the  one  just  considered,  as  lettered  sophistry  and  false- 
hood characterize  the  age  of  refined  civilization  only.  Since 
the  day  when  the  prophet  Elijah  complained  that  he  was 
left  alone  amid  the  martyred  thousands  of  Israel,  nay  since 
the  exodus  of  the  oppressed  Hebrews  under  Moses,  the  truth 
and  its  adherents  have  been  devoted  by  its  foes  to  utter  de- 
struction. Philistia  and  Idumea  once  combined  to  effect 
this,  Assyria  fell  in  her  giant  legions  before  the  angel  of 
the  pestilence  while  vowing  to  effect  this,  the  Jewish  Phari- 
see and  Sadducee  forgot  their  mutual  hate  and  coalesced 
against  Him  who  was  the  truth  embodied — to  effect  this. 
A  dreadful  succession  of  ten  imperial  persecutions,  and  then 
of  Saracenic  massacres,  and  then  of  papal  crusades  against 
the  Vaudois  and  the  Albigenses  and  Waldenses,  and  then 
of  the  Autos  da  fe  of  the  Inquisition,  were  employed  during 
fifteen  centuries,  to  effect  this. 

The  weapons  of  the  Church  while  defending  the  truth  in 
this  fiery  conflict  have  been  sometimes  the  literal  sword  and 
spear,  but  usually,  and  far  more  appropriately,  has  she  been 
clad  in  spiritual  panoply.  Armed  with  the  breast-plate  of 
righteousness,  the  shield  of  faith,  the  helmet  of  salvation  and 
the  sword  of  the  Spirit,  and  praying  always  with  all  prayer, 
has  she  marched  forth  ;  and  while  the  rack  and  the  wheel, 
the  axe,  the  cross  and  the  stake,  have  on  every  side  been 
glutted  with  the  blood  of  her  sons,  she  has  still  advanced- 
conquering  and  to  conquer.  At  one  time,  the  saint-like 
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patience  and  meekness  of  her  confessors  and  martyrs  have 
awed  their  persecutors  into  harmlessness,  or  melted  them 
into  friends ;  at  another,  the  righteous  judgments  of  God 
have  swept  away  these  foes  from  her  onward  path — so  that 
sooner  or  later  persecution  has  been  succeeded  by  triumph, 
and  the  truth,  seemingly  prostrate,  has  risen  the  more  erect 
and  firm,  resting  on  the  Church  as  its  immovable  pillar  and 
ground. 

IV.     As  the  Propagator  of  the  truth. 

The  truth,  in  its  very  genius,  is  divinely  benevolent  and 
diffusive.  God  has  so  framed  the  relations  of  men  and  the 
economy  of  the  moral  universe,  that  duty  ever  calls  us  away 
from  self  to  Him  as  its  supreme  object ;  and  happiness,  if 
sought  for  in  any  path  but  that  of  disinterested  good  will  to 
others,  cannot  be  found.  This  is  the  spirit  and  precept  of 
both  the  law  and  the  gospel,  this  was  the  life  of  the  incar- 
nate Immanuel.  In  depositing  His  truth  with  the  Church, 
and  in  constituting  her  its  perpetual  defender,  God's  un- 
changeable design  must  have  been  to  render  her  the  instru- 
ment of  its  universal  propagation  and  diffusion.  Had  no 
such  injunction  as  this — "Go  ye  into  all  the  world,  and 
preach  the  gospel  to  every  creature,"  been  recorded,  the 
duty  would  be  no  less  imperative.  And  had  the  Church 
proved  recreant  to  this  charge  of  her  glorified  Lord,  she 
would  ages  since  have  become  extinct  in  all  her  members, 
and  the  truth  with  its  eternal  interests  would  have  irrecov- 
erably fallen ;  as  she  has  on  the  contrary  in  some  good  de- 
gree proved  faithful,  as  she  is  hereafter  to  diffuse  salvation 
wherever  the  waves  can  waft  or  the  compass  guide  her  sons, 
she  is  rightly  styled  the  pillar  and  ground  of  the  truth. 

The  Church,  I  say,  has  already  in  some  degree  proved 
faithful.  Without  referring  to  her  history  antecedent  to  the 
crucifixion  and  ascension  of  her  Master,  what  instrumental- 
ity, it  may  be  asked,  did  God  use  to  diffuse  the  gospel,  and 
melt  down  Jewish  bigotry  into  discipleship,  and  transform 


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philosophic  and  barbarian  heathenism  into  evangelical  piety  ? 
Whose  was  the  agency,  which,  co-operating  subordinately 
with  that  of  the  Holy  Spirit  and  moulded  absolutely  at  His 
will,  bore  the  glad  light  and  warmth  of  salvation  throughout 
the  darkness  and  death  of  the  Roman  empire,  amid  the 
Scythians  of  the  Euxine,  along  the  whole  wide  margin  of 
Northern  Africa,  among  the  fire  worshippers  of  Persia,  and 
to  the  western  bank  of  the  Indus,  until  the  cross  was  erect- 
ed in  triumph  upon  the  very  throne  of  the  Caesars  ?  Whose 
were  the  dauntlessness  and  the  benevolence  that  in  subse- 
quent ages  overthrew  the  gory  altars  of  the  Druids  in  Brit- 
ain and  of  Odin  in  Scandinavia,  that  traversed  the  wilds  of 
Sarmatia  and  the  measureless  steppes  of  Muscovy,  until  all 
Europe  had,  nominally  at  least,  bowed  before  the  shrines  of 
the  gospel  ?  And  through  every  succeeding  age  until  the 
present  hour  has  the  truth  been  propagated  by  the  Church. 
Whether  ostensibly  aided  by  the  papacy,  or  infected  with 
its  corruptions,  or  menaced  with  its  Inquisitorial  fires,  her 
sons  have  sown  the  immortal  seed — at  one  period  amid  the 
vallies  of  Savoy,  at  another  upon  the  mountains  of  Bohemia, 
at  another  by  the  cottages  of  the  Lollards  in  Britain,  until 
the  master  spirits  of  the  Reformation  spread  it  broad  cast 
over  western  Europe,  and  with  their  associates  thus  prepared 
the  way  for  that  living  harvest  which  now  waves  over  the 
eastern  half  of  North  America. 

But  this  is  but  the  dawn  of  her  glorious  destiny.  The 
local  revivals  of  religion,  which,  during  the  last  half  century, 
have  so  gladdened  the  hearts  and  multiplied  the  numbers  of 
her  children,  the  translation  of  the  Bible  into  a  hundred  dif- 
ferent languages,  the  vast  circuit  of  missionary  and  other 
evangelical  operations — limited  not  by  continents  nor  oceans 
but  even  now  prospectively  embracing  the  whole  human 
family,  these  are  but  the  harbingers  of  that  mightiest  of  all 
human  achievements  which  is  still  reserved  for  the  Church — 
the  propagation  of  the  truth   throughout  every  empire  and 


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province,  every  city,  hamlet  and  habitation  on  the  globe. 
The  repetition  of  the  wonders  of  the  day  of  Pentecost  with- 
in the  Sandwich  Islands  is  to  be  but  one  amid  a  hundred 
fulfilments  of  the  promise,  when,  through  the  labors  of  the 
Church,  a  nation  shall  be  born  in  a  day.  Her  sons  are  yet 
to  surmount  the  barrier  wall  of  China,  to  be  welcomed  on 
the  shores  of  Japan,  to  break  "the  four-fold  chain"  of  caste 
throughout  Hindostan,  and  to  level  with  the  dust  every  min- 
aret of  Persia  and  Turkey.  Neither  the  desert  of  Sahara 
nor  the  summits  of  mount  Atlas  shall  exclude  them  from 
meeting  in  central  Africa,  as  the  deliverers  of  her  long  op- 
pressed myriads ;  neither  savage  ferocity  nor  oriental  big- 
otry, neither  the  thunders  of  the  Vatican  nor  the  scimitar 
and  bowstring  of  Islamism,  neither  the  enmity  of  the  world 
nor  the  wiles  of  the  pit,  shall  frustrate  the  prayers  and  alms 
and  labors  of  the  Church — until  the  diffusion  of  the  gospel 
shall  be  co-extensive  with  that  of  the  sunbeams,  and  all  earth's 
tribes  shall  bow  before  Him  who  was  once  dead,  and  who 
now  lives  and  reigns  forever. 

The  Church  is  therefore  justly  styled,  "the  pillar  and 
ground  of  the  truth."  God  has  appointed  her  to  be  its  per- 
petual depositary,  she  practically  illustrates  in  the  lives  of 
her  members  its  spirit  and  power,  she  has  been  its  constant 
and  successful  defender,  she  is  to  propagate  it  as  the  only 
system  of  doctrine  and  duty  throughout  the  world. 

With  these  views  of  this  interesting  subject  we  may  prop- 
erly remark : 

That  the  Church  is  safe.  If  the  Church  is  the  pillar  and 
ground  of  the  truth,  then  the  interests  of  the  latter  are  iden- 
tified with  those  of  the  former,  the  truth  must  stand  or  fall 
with  tha  Church.  Independently  then  of  the  numberless 
predictions  which  announce  her  hastening  universal  triumph, 
nay  were  the  mists  of  futurity  penetrated  not  by  the  light  of 
one  promise  or  encouragement,  the  Church  might  sit  erect 
and  secure ;  for  she  is  assured  that  God  esteems  His  own 


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truth  and  the  gospel  which  embodies  it  as  so  precious,  that 
He  will  prosper  every  interest  which  is  insepareble  from 
theirs.  Such  indeed  has  not  been  the  conviction  of  her 
enemies.  They  have  not  only  willed  her  extinction,  but 
have  often  attempted  it,  often  foretold  it ;  malice  has  forged 
its  calumnies,  scepticism  has  woven  its  sophistries,  pleasure 
arrayed  its  blandishments,  persecution  sharpened  its  axe, 
and  power  marshalled  its  legions,  to  confound  or  seduce  or 
destroy  her  sons.  But  the  day  of  triumph  has  ordinarily 
been  short,  and  then  the  providence  of  God  has  swept  her 
foes  successively  away — with  scarce  a  monument  or  vestige 
left  to  remind  us  of  their  destruction,  while  the  Church  has 
arisen  the  stronger  fsom  her  depression  and  swelled  but  the 
loftier  song  of  thanksgiving  to  her  almighty  Deliverer. 

Her  friends  then  should  never  fear,  nor  her  enemies  ex- 
ult, for  the  past  is  but  the  omen  of  the  future.  Such  is  even 
now  her  energy,  so  fixed  are  her  foundations,  so  wide  spread 
is  the  conviction  among  half  the  governments  on  earth  that 
the  truth  which  she  propagagates  must  prevail,  that  no  ex- 
tensive combination  for  her  overthrow  is  probably  hereafter 
to  be  dreaded  ;  but  should  the  fiercest  hurricane  of  earthly 
and  hellish  wrath  be  yet  destined  to  beat  upon  her,  the  Sun 
of  righteousness  will  speedily  scatter  the  tempest,  the  gales 
of  peace  shall  waft  her  to  a  secure  haven,  while  the  wrecks 
of  her  enemies  shall  be  seen  floating  on  every  wave.  Safe, 
happy,  blessed,  is  the  Church,  for  she  can  never  be  separated 
from  the  truth  of  God. 

Our  personal  relations  to  the  Church  determine  our  char- 
acter and  destiny.  As  the  Church  and  the  truth  are  insep- 
arable, our  relations  are  identically  the  same  to  each  ;  we 
cannot  be  the  friends  of  the  latter,  if  we  are  hostile  or  indif- 
ferent to  the  former.  This  may  be  reluctantly  credited  by 
many  whose  intelligent,  speculative  belief  of  the  gospel  is 
often  accompanied  by  an  unblamable  life,  but  who  also  know 
that  they  have  no  fellowship  with  the  Church  of  the  living 


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God.  They  would  disunite,  were  it  possible,  the  truth  from 
the  Church,  so  that  the  laws  of  discipleship  to  Christ  should 
be  obligatory  only  upon  His  professed  followers,  while  the 
divine  favor  should  be  fieely  bestowed,  both  here  and  here- 
after, upon  others  who  assume  not  these  obligations.  But 
this  dissociation  is  impracticable,  for  the  truth  recognizes  in 
the  Church  and  in  her  alone  its  depositary,  its  defender  and 
the  agent  of  its  triumphs.  Her  members  are  its  living  epis- 
tles, its  uninterrupted  succession  of  witnesses,  in  whom  God, 
angels  and  men,  behold  illustrated  the  holiness  which  it  en- 
joins, the  foretaste  of  heaven  which  it  imparts,  and  its  power 
to  renew  and  to  save.  Them  accordingly  the  gospel  char- 
acterizes as  new  creatures  in  Christ,  as  the  children  of  God, 
as  the  heirs  of  all  the  promises,  but  it  thus  characterizes  none 
others. 

Are  you  then,  my  hearer,  one  with  the  Church  of  God, 
one  with  her  members  in  your  purposes  and  sympathies,  in 
your  efforts  and  aims,  in  your  hopes  and  joys  ?  Is  her  en- 
largement in  your  own  neighborhood  and  throughout  this 
state  and  country — until  her  boundaries  shall  be  those  only 
of  the  wide  earth,  the  subject  of  your  earnest  petitions,  the 
object  of  your  liberal  contributions,  the  theme  of  your  fond 
anticipations  ?  Are  the  sanctuaries  where  she  worships 
dearer  to  you  than  the  halls  of  legislation,  the  marts  of  com- 
merce, the  bowers  of  science,  or  than  even  the  loved  circle 
of  your  own  family  ?  Are  the  ordinances  in  which  her  chil- 
dren commune  received  by  you  as  the  memorials  of  her  Re- 
deemer's grace,  and  as  the  earnest  of  a  more  intimate  com- 
munion with  Him  above  ?  Then,  you  need  no  unearthly 
vision  to  assure  you  that  you  are  now  a  child  of  the  High- 
est, and  that  you  shall  hereafter  shine  forth  as  the  sun  in  the 
Kingdom  of  your  Father. 

Or  can  you  not  endure  these  tests,  must  conscience  testi- 
fy that  you  possess  not  one  of  these  evidences  of  union  to 
the  Church  ?     Then,  you  are  not  only  an  alien  from  the  com- 


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monwealth  of  Israel,  but  also  a  stranger  to  the  covenants  of 
promise ;  you  have  no  hope,  and  are  without  God  in  the 
world. 

It  is  a  peculiar  duty  and  privilege  to  co-operate  with 
such  associations  as  that,  whose  anniversary  we  are  now 
commemorating.  They  are  but  the  auxiliaries  and  instru- 
ments of  the  Church  in  the  performance  of  the  great  work 
which  is  to  occupy  her  until  the  end  of  time — the  propaga- 
tion of  the  truth.  In  this  work,  the  loftiest  which  ever  tasks 
the  energies  of  men  or  awakens  the  sympathies  of  angels, 
the  Maine  Missionary  Society  has  been  for  thirty  two  years 
an  uniuterrupted,  and  through  the  blessing  of  God  an  hon- 
ored, co-worker  :  one  hundred  and  sixty  churches  through- 
out the  length  and  breadth  of  the  State,  built  upon  the  foun- 
dation of  the  apostles  and  prophets,  gratefully  acknowledge 
it  as  having  been  directly  instrumental  in  their  organization, 
or  as  having  strengthened  them  in  the  weakness  of  their 
"deep  poverty."  Its  missionaries  have  annually  gone  forth, 
like  the  seventy  whom  our  Lord  commissioned,  over  the 
hills  and  plains  and  into  the  wildernesses  of  this  land  of 
promise,  and  aided  by  His  grace,  have  gathered  many  a  lost 
sheep  into  the  house  of  our  spiritual  Israel.  Often  has  the 
wilderness  and  the  solitary  place  been  glad  for  them,  often 
through  them  has  the  desert  been  made  to  rejoice  and  blos- 
som as  the  rose.  The  history  and  the  efficiency  of  this  So- 
ciety are  so  widely  known  as  to  need  no  emblazoning,  I  stand 
not  here  to  pronounce  its  eulogy,  many  a  heart — present 
and  absent — could  do  this  more  effectively,  and  its  record 
is  also  on  high. 

But  I  do  stand  here,  addressing  a  great  multitude  of  the 
professed  members,  and  doubtless  of  the  real  members,  of 
"the  Church  of  the  living  God,  the  pillar  and  ground  of  the 
truth,"  and  to  each  of  whom  the  truth  is  inestimably  pre- 
cious. They  are  living  illustrations  of  its  transforming,  sanc- 
tifying efficacy ;  and  a  gratitude — whose  measure  eternity 


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only  can  unfold,  should  daily  excite  them  to  live  for  its  uni- 
versal propagation,  until,  through  their  instrumentality  and 
that  of  the  whole  Church  in  present  and  coming  years,  "the 
creature  shall  be  delivered  from  the  bondage  of  corruption 
into  the  glorious  liberty  of  the  children  of  God."  To  them, 
and  to  the  philanthropist  and  patriot,  to  the  friends  of  pub- 
lic peace  and  private  prosperity,  the  Maine  Missionary  So- 
ciety has  now  once  more  made  its  Report,  once  more  soli- 
cits their  cordial  co-operation. 


REPORT 

OF    THE    TRUSTEES    OF    THB    HAI.tE      MISSIONARY     SOCIETV,    AT    THEIR 
THIRTY-SECOND    ANNUAL    MEETING,    IN     BRUNSWICK,  JUNK    26,    1839. 

Division  of  labor  is  necessary  to  facilitate  the  accomplishment  of 
every  great  design.  This  is  especially  true,  in  the  fulfilment  of  the 
last  command  given  to  his  disciples  by  our  Saviour,  while  on  earth, 
to  "Preach  the  gospel  to  every  creature."  This  could  not  be 
done  by  one  man  or  by  one  body  of  men,  the  12  and  the  70  and 
their  associates.  They  could  not  be  every  where  in  the  earth.  Nor 
by  one  generation  of  men.  It  is  a  protracted  work,  and  they  "con- 
tinue not  by  reason  of  death."  And  yet  the  command  is  binding  upon 
all  the  Churches,  and  at  all  times.  They  cannot  be  relieved  from 
the  responsibility,  till  the  work  is  accomplished.  Wherever  situa- 
ted, and  in  whatever  age  of  the  world  they  live  ;  whether  planted  in 
the  dark  parts  of  the  earth,  where  the  population  around  them  is 
"wholly  given  to  idolatry,"  or  have  "lines  fallen  to  them  in  pleasant 
places  ;"  whether  living  in  a  period  nearer  to,  or  more  remote  from 
the  consummation  of  the  design,  in  the  coming  millennium,  their  time 
and  talents,  their  wealth  and  influence,  all  that  they  are,  and  all  that 
they  have,  are  imperiously  called  into  requisition,  to  spread  the  savor  ot 
Christ's  name,  and  establish  his  dominion,  in  all  parts  of  the  earth.  It 
is  now  more  than  18  centuries  since  the  command  was  given,  and  yet 
the  greater  portion  of  the  world  is  still  under  the  dominion  of  the  prince 
of  the  power  of  the  air,  the  spirit  that  worketh  in  the  children  of  diso- 
bedience. There  must  be  more  vigorous  effort,  more  combined  and 
persevering  exertion,  more  self  denying  labors  and  more  expansive 
benevolence,  as  also  more  effectual  and  fervent  prayers  offered  up, 
by  those  who  are  "workers  together  with  God,"  to  usher  in  the  light 
of  that  day,  when  the  kingdom  and  the  dominion  and  the  greatness 
of  the  kingdom,  under  the  whole  heaven,  shall  be  given  to  the  people 
of  the  saints  of  the  Most  High. 

Every  portion  of  the  Church,  however,  has  its  appropriate  sphere 
of  action  ;  though  the  efforts  of  all  tend  to  the  same  general  issue. 
We  may  he  called  upon  to  aid,  as  God  has  given  ability,  in  all  the 
benevolent  operations  of  the  day  ;  to  plant  the  standard  of  Christ 
in  the  remote  parts  of  the  world  and  in  the  islands  of  the  sea,  and 
arrest  the  progress  of  error  and  vice  of  every  shape  and  form,  in  for- 
eign lands.  But  it  is  especially  incumbent  on  us,  to  dissipate  the 
darkness  that  hovers  around  ns,  to  remove  evils  that  meet  the  eye 
and  press  upon  us  on  every  side,  to  look  to  the  feeble  churches  within 
our  own  limits  and  strengthen  the  things  that  remain,  and  build  up  the 
extended  wastes  ;  so  that  no  one  may  have  occasion  to  adopt  the 
language  of  regret ;  "Mine   own    vineyard  have  1  not  kept." 

There  is  a  broad  field  within  our  own  State,  the  necessity  for  the 
cultivation  of  which  originated  this  Society,  and  for  the  accomplish- 
ment of  which  object,  its  labors  for  almost  a  third  of  a  century  have 
been  uniformly  and  successfully  devoted. — Every  year  has  witnessed 
some  advancement  in  the  cause.  We  are  to  day  brought  to  our  32d 
anniversary  ;  and  the  Trustees  would  submit  to  the  members  of  the  So- 
ciety, and  to  its  friends  and  patrons,  their  Report  of  the  proceedings  of 
the  year  now  closing;  embracing  a  list  of  the  missionaries  employed, 
their  respective  places  of  labor,  with  the  various   results;  the  state  of 


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the  treasury,  and  a  survey  ot  the  field  that   calls  for  continued   and 
increasing  operations. 

Alphabetical  list  of  Missionaries. 

Mr.  Charles  E.  Abbott,  Farmington  Falls  and  vicinity,  Kennebec 
Co.  1  month. 

Rev.  George  W.  Adams,  Brooksville,  Hancock  Co.  1  3-4  months. 

Rev.  John  Baker,  Monson  and  Blanchard,  Somerset  Co.  3  1-4 
months. 

Mr.  Baker  was  dismissed  from  Monson,  during  the  last  month,  and 
is  now   laboring   in    Kennebunkport. 

Rev.  George  Brown,  Waldo  Co.  3  months. 

Mr.   Calvin    Butler,   Buokfield,  Oxford  Co.   1  month. 

Rev.  Isaac    Carelton,  Lubec,  Washington   Co.  3  months. 

Mr.  Carleton  closed  his  labors  at  Lubec,  in  March  last,  and  has 
since   been    installed  to   the  pastoral  care  of  the  Church  in  Oxford. 

Rev.  James  Carruthers,  12  months. 

Mr.  Carruthers  was  employed  in  different  parts  of  the  State,  chiefly 
in  Lincoln  and  Kennebec  Counties.  Under  his  ministrations,  in  the 
North  Parish  in  Augusta,  there  was  a  revival  of  religion,  and  a  number 
of  hopeful  converts  are  reported.  He  also  states,  in  a  communica- 
tion from  Biddeford,  under  date  of  13th  instant ;  "I  came  here  on  the 
1st  of  May  ;  and  for  these  three  weeks  past,  the  Lord  has  been  pour- 
ing out  his  Spirit.     Nine  give  good  evidence  of  a  change  of  heart." 

Rev.  Ariel  P.  Chute   Oxford,   Oxford  Co.  1  1-2  months. 

Mr.  Chute,  has  been  dismissed  from  his  pastoral  care  of  the  Church 
in   Oxford,   during   the  year. 

Rev.  William   Davenport,    Perry,  Washington  Co.  3 months. 

This  Church  has  been  aided  hitherto,  from  its  organization  ;  but 
"will  endeavor  with  the  blessing  of  God  henceforward  to  sustain  its 
own  ordinances  of  worship. ' 

Rev.  Timothy  Davis,  Litchfield,   Kennebec  Co.  3  months. 

Rev.  Nathan  Douglass,  St.  Albans  and  Palmyra,  Somerset  Co.  11-2 
months. 

Rev.  Samuel  S.  Drake,  Exeter  and  Dexter,  Penobscot  Co.  3  months. 

Rev.  George  W.  Fargo,  Phillips  and  vicinity,  Franklin  Co.  3 
months. 

Rev.  Samuel  C.  Fessenden,  East  Thomaston,  Lincoln  Co.  3  months. 

Mr.  Amos  Fisk,  Knox    and   Thorndike,  Waldo  Co.  1  month. 

Rev.  Ephraim  Fobes,  Weld  and  vicinity,Franklin  Co.  3  months. 

"During  the  year,  5  have  been  united  to  the  Curch  in  Weld. — 
A  number  hopefully  converted  have  not  yet  joined  with  any  Church." 

Mr.  Pearson  Follansbee,  Bowdoin,  Lincoln  Co.  1  month. 

Rev.  Benjamin  Follett,  Forks  of  the   Kennebec,  1  month. 

Rev.   David    Gerry,  Brownfield,  Oxford    Co.  1  3-4  months. 

Mr.  Gerry  is  now  supplying  in  the  adjoining  towns  of  Brown- 
field,  Hiram  and  Denmark;  in  each,  one  third  of  the  time.  These 
three  Churches,  he  states  in  his  report,  have  united  to  sustain  a  min- 
ister, and  arrangements  are  making  for  a  settlement.  The  Church 
and  Society  in  Brownfield,  completed  their  new  meeting  house, 
which  was  dedicated  in  November  last.  From  that  time  the  congre- 
gation gradually  increased,  and  the  attention  to  religion  also  increas- 
ed ;  till  it  was  thought  advisable  to  have  a  protracted  meeting.  Ac- 
cordingly one  was  commenced,  on  the  28th  of  May,  all  the  religious 
denominations  meeting  together;  and  the  Lord  poured  out  his  Spirit 


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upon  us,  in  a  wonderful  manner.  Between  25  and  30  are  indulging 
hope,  that  they  have  passed  from  death  unto  life  ;  and  about  25  more 
are  seriously  enquiring  what  they  must  do  to  be  saved.  This  work 
is  very  still,  and  appears  to  he  deep  and  thorough. 

The  church  in  Denmark,  also,  has  enjoyed  a  glorious  refreshing 
from  the  presence  of  the  Lord.  I  have  admitted  12  into  that  church  ; 
and  there  are  8  or  10  more,  that  will  unite  with  them  in  a  few  weeks. 
The  dew  of  divine  grace,  too,  has  been  shed  down,  in  some  meas- 
ure, upon  the  people  in  Hiram  ;  and  a  few  have  recently  indulged 
hope  in  the  mercy  of  God." 

Rev.  Solomon  B.  Gilbert,  Lyman,  York  Co.  2 1-2  months.  "Revival, 
and':  about  30   hopeful    converts." 

Rev.  James   Gooch,   Denmark,  Oxford   Co.  3  months. 

Rev.    Simeon  Hackett,  Temple,  Franklin  Co.  1  3-4  months. 

Rev.  Israel  Hills,  Lovell,  Oxford  Co.  3  months. 

The  Report  of  Mr.  Hills,  under  date  of  24th  May  last,  states: 
"God  has  in  rich  mercy  visited  the  churches  of  this  Conference, 
during  the  past  winter  and  spring.  In  this  gracious  visitation  Lovell 
has  shared.  An  unusual  interest  in  the  things  of  religion  appeared 
among  the  youth,  last  fall,  which  continued  to  increase,  until  it  was 
manifest  that  God  was  in  the  midst  of  his  people.  Several  were 
awakened,  and  a  deep  and  solemn  stillness  pervaded  our  meetings. 
Between  20  and  30  are  indulging  hope,  and  give  different  degrees  of 
evidence,  that  they  have  become  the  subjects  of  divine  grace ;  and 
some  are  still  in  an  anxious  state  of  mind.  The  work,  it  is  hoped,  is 
still  progressing.  None  have  as  yet  made  public  profession  of  religion. 

Rev.  George  C.  Hyde,  Readfield,  Kennebec  Co.  6  months. 

Rev.    Horatio    Ilsley,  Cherryfield,  Washington  Co.  2  1-2  months. 

Rev.  Henry  C.  Jewett,  Winslow,  Kennebec  Co.  1  3-4  months. 

Rev.  William  V,  Jordan,  Dixfield,  Oxford  Co.  1  3-4  months. 

Rev.    Ivory    Kimball,    Limington,  York  Co.  3  months. 

The  report  of  Mr.  Kimball  shews  the  goings  of  God,  among  the 
people  of  his  charge. 

"The  Spirit,  he  says,  has  been  poured  down  from  on  high.  The 
Church  has  been  revived,  and  sinners  have  been  plucked  as  brands 
from  the  burning.  A  revival  of  religion  commenced  with  the  first 
of  April,  and  has  continued  until  the  present  time.  It  commenced 
with  successive  evening  prayer  meetings,  which  issued  in  a  protracted 
meeting,  that  was  intensely  interesting  and  solemn.  There  was  a 
coming  up  to  the  work  ot  God  in  the  Church,  and  the  result  was, 
great  anxiety  among  sinners,  inquiring  the  way  of  salvation.  Many, 
we  hope,  have  obeyed  the  requisition  of  the  gospel  ;  "Believe  in  the 
Lor<£  Jesus  Christ."  18  have  united  with  the  church,  and  about  as 
many  more  are  indulging  hope.  In  this  number  are  included  about 
20  young  men,  between  the  ages  of  18  and  35.  This  church  has 
never  received  so  many  to  its  communion  at  one  time,  since  its  or- 
ganization, as  it  did  on  the  first  Sabbath  of  this  month  ;  neither  has 
it  before  ever  enjoyed  such  signal  displays  of  God's  grace,  in  the  con- 
version of  sinners.  The  change  has  been  verv  great ;  for  which  we 
would  thank  God,  and  take  courage." 

Rev.  Levi  Loring,  Anson  and  Athens,  Somerset  Co.  12  months. 

Rev.  Eaton  Mason,  Sweden,  Oxford   Co.  3  months. 

In  a  communication  from  Sweden,  it  is  stated  ;  "The  past  year  has 
been  a  year  of  revival  of  religion  among  us.  We  hope  between  30  and 
40  have  experienced  a  change  of  heart." 


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Rev.   Henry  A.  Merrill,    Biddeford,  York   Co.  1  3-4  montl**. 

Rev.    Josiali  G.    Merrill,   Washington,  Lincoln  Co.  2  3-4  months. 

Mr.  Merrill,  during  his  mission,  has  been  installed  to  the  pastoral 
care  of  the  church  in  Washington. 

Rev.    Tobias  A.    Miller,    Kittery,  York  Co.  3  months. 

This  church,  which  had  long  been  destitute  and  feeble,  "has  been, 
the  last   year,  blessed  with  the  resettlement  of  the  ministry." 

Rev.  Silas  McKeen,  Belfast,  Waldo  Co.    3  months. 

The  following  is  an  extract  from  Mr.  McKeen's  report,  under  date 
of  19th  inst. 

"The  first  Congregational  church  in  Belfast,  during  the  year  which 
now  terminates,  has,  through  the  great  goodness  of  God,  been  revived, 
strengthened  and  encouraged,  by  the  addition  of  35  memhers,  most 
of  whom  have  but  recently  ohtained  hope  of  an  interest  m  Christ, 
and  girded  on  the  gospel  armor.  These  were  chiefly  the  subjects  of 
that  work  of  grace,  which  God  performed  among  us,  in  the  spring  of 
the  last  year.  The  converts  having  had  time  to  reflect,  and  act  de- 
liberately, appear  to  be  steadfast  in  their  profession,  and  persevering 
in  the  service  of  their  Lord.  Harmony  prevails  in  the  church  ;  an 
increasing  love  to  the  house  and  worship  of  God  is  manifest,  and  the 
prospect  of  the  firm  establishment  of  orthodox  religion  here  decidedly 
encouraging.  It  gives  us  no  little  satisfaction  to  be  permitted  to  in- 
form you,  that  this  church  have  recently  voted  not  merely  to  return 
to  your  Society  fervent  thanks  for  the  assistance,  which  you  have, 
during  their  weakness  and  sore  trials,  so  kindly  and  perseveringly 
afforded  them  ;  but  to  assure  yon  of  their  intention  to  support  hereaf- 
ter the  ordinances  of  religion  among  them,  without  missionary  assis- 
tance. They  know  not  how  they  may  succeed,  but  are  resolved  to  put 
their   trust  in  God,  and  make  a  united  and  strenuous  effort. 

I  have  no  doubt  that,  if  they  do  it  with  a  right  spirit,  they  will  be 
blessed  beyond  their  expectations  ;  and  have  the  consequent  happi- 
ness of  seeing  other  feeble  churches  sharing  more  largely  in  your  lib- 
eralities." 

Rev.  Joseph  R.  Munsell,  Lincoln  and  vicinity,  Penobscot  Co.  6 
months. 

Mr.  Munsell,  in  a  communication  under  date  of  31st  of  last  month, 
observes:  "During  the  time  of  my  missionary  labors,  I  have  visited 
Burlington,  and  preached  there  on  the  Sabbath.  They  keep  up  soci- 
ety meetings  ;  and  live  in  the  hopes  of  a  brighter  day  hefore  them. 
In  Septemher,  1  went  up  to,  what  is  called,  the  Aroostic  settlement. 
It  is  some  way  this  side  of  the  river  of  the  same  name.  In  this  place, 
the  Lord  was  present  by  the  saving  influences  of  his  grace.  They 
numbered  8  or  10  hopeful  conversions.  The  interest  on  the  subject 
was  general ;  and  they  came  in  from  all  the  wilderness  round  about, 
to  hear  the  word  ot  life.  1  visited  also  Springfield,  a  town  about  20 
miles  east  of  Lincoln.  This  is  getting  to  be  a  promising  field  of 
missionary  labor,  as  well  as  the  Aroostic,  and  probably  before  long, 
Congregational  churches  will  be  organized  in    both  these  places. 

I  am  now  about  leaving  this  extensive  field  of  labor,  having  accep- 
ted an  invitation  to  go  to  East  Brewer.  Since  I  have  been  in  the 
ministry,  I  have  stood  on  this  outpost  of  our  Zion.  I  think  1  have  a 
claim  to  be  relieved.  1  do  not  leave,  because  I  am  tired  of  the  labor; 
but  it  is  in  part  because  I  cannot  endure  it.  My  health  is  not  equal 
to  the  work.     I  hope  a   suitable   man  will  be  selected  soon,  and  sent 


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here^  for  there   are  many  hopeful  appearances,   and    religious  meet- 
ings  are  full  and  solemn." 

Mr.  Munsell  has,  for  several  years  past,  had  the  pastoral  charge  of 
the  church  at  Burlington  ;  and  has  supplied,  as  a  missionary,  in  vari- 
ous places  in  the  vicinity.  As  he  has  now  left  that  station,  there  is  no 
missionary  from  the  border  line,  extending  a  hundred  miles  west- 
ward ;  a  region  embracing  an  increasing  population,  which  will  re- 
main, in  a  great  measure,  a  moral  waste,  unless  cultivated  by  the  hand 
ol  charity.  There  are  now  4  churches,  and  2  others  about  to  be  or- 
ganized. At  Houlton,  where  this  society  has  formerly  had  a  mission- 
ary, the  church  is  supplied  by  the  Chaplain  of  the  Garrison  ;  the  troops 
and  the  citizens  meeting  in  the  same  place  of  worship.  But  his  la- 
bors are  necessarily  restricted  to  the  place,  leaving  a  vast  destitution 
around.  Two  or  three  missionaries,  could  means  be  obtained,  should 
be  immediately  sent  to  occupy  this  interesting  field,  a  field  already 
white  to  the  harvest. 

Rev.   Samuel  Ordway,  Parsonsfield,  York  Co.  1  3-4  months. 

Mr.  Ordway  has  been  ordained  to  the  pastoral  care  of  this  church, 
during  the  year,  under  the  auspices  of  this  society.  "An  interesting 
revival  of  religion  is  now  in  progress." 

Rev.  Robert  Page,  Levant,  Penobscot  Co.  3  months. 

Rev.  John  Perham,  Industry  and  New  Portland,  Franklin  Co.  3 
months. 

Mr.  Perham  has  been  ordained  over  these  two  churches,  with  en- 
couraging   prospects  of  usefulness. 

Rev.   Clark    Perry,  Standish,  Cumberland  Co.  3  mouths. 

Rev.  John  Sawyer,  Corinna,  Bradford  and  Kirkland,  Penobscot 
Co.  11-2  months. 

Mr.  Edwin  Seabury,  Lincoln  and  Hancock  Counties,  1  1-2  months. 

Rev.   Jotham    Sewall,  Harpswell,    Cumberland  Co.  1  month. 

Rev.  Daniel  Sewall,  Chesterville  and  Fayette,  Kennebec  Co.  1  3-4 
months. 

Mr.  William  S.  Sewall,  Clinton,  Fairfield  and  Brownville,  3 
months. 

Rev.  Nathan  W.  Sheldon,  Gray,  Cumberland  Co.  2  1-2  months.  Mr. 
Sheldon  has  been  installed  to  the  pastoral  charge  of  this  church. 

Rev.  Oren  Sikes,  Mercer,  Somerset  Co.  3  months. 

Rev.   Charles   Soule,   Norway,  Oxford    Co.    3  months. 

"Christians  have  been  very  much  refreshed  and  blessed ;  some 
backsliders  reclaimed,  and  some  who  had  a  trembling  hope,  been 
strengthened,  and  5  have  publicly  professed  religion  ;  as  also  some 
few  sinners  hopefully  converted." 

Mr.  Joseph  W.  Smith,   Lincoln,   Penobscot  Co.  1  month. 

Rev.  Samuel  Stone,  2d  church  York,  York  Co.  2  3-4  months. 

This  ancient  church,  though  once  large  and  flourishing,  has  for 
many  years  been  few  in  numbers  and  feeble  in  strength.  It  is  now 
gradually  increasing,  and  renewing  its  vigor.  Mr.  Stone,  during 
his  mission,  has  been  installed  its  pastor. 

Rev.  David   Starrett,  Readfield,  Kennebec  Co.  1  month. 

Rev.  Micah  W.  Strickland,  Mount  Desert,  Hancock  Co.  3  months. 

Rev.  Hermon  Stinson,  Pittston  and  vicinity,  Kennebec  Co.  1  1-4 
months. 

Rev.  Seth  Sweetser,  Gardiner,  Kennebec  Co.  2  months. 

During  the  year,  Mr.  Sweetser  has  been  dismissed  from  this  church, 
and  has  taken   the  pastoral  care  of  a  church  in   Worcester,  Masea- 


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chusetts.  The  church  in  Gardiner  lias  since  given  a  call  to  Mr.  Aaron 
C.  Adams  to  settle  with  them,  to  which  he  has  given  an  affirmative 
answer,  and  his  ordination  is  appointed  on  the  10th  of  next  month. 

Rev.  Samuel  Talhot,  Wilton,  Franklin  Co.  1  3-4. 

Rev.  Josiah  Tucker,  Bingham  and  Madison,  Somerset  Co.  3 
months. 

Rev.  George  F.  Tewksbury,  Albany,  Oxford  Co.  3  months. 

This  place  has  been  favored  with  some  sprinklings  of  divine  grace. 
Mr.  Tewksbury  remarks,in  his  report  under  date  of  5th  inst.  "Dur- 
ing the  year  past,  there  have  been  13  added  to  the  church,  12  by  pro- 
fession, and,  1  by  letter."  He  adds  also ;  "In  March  last  we  had  a 
protracted  meeting  ;  which  issued  very  favorably.  We  are  encour- 
aged to  hope  there  have  been  10  or  12  conversions.  5  have  been  ex- 
amined for  admission  into  the  church,  and  we  expect  others  will  be 
soon." 

Rev.  David  Turner,  New  Vineyard,   Somerset  Co.  1  month. 

Rev.  Elias  Wells,  Sebec,   Penobscot  Co.   1  1-2  months. 

Rev.  Calvin  White,  Hebron  and  West  Minot,  Cumberland  Co.  1 
month. 

Rev.  Luther  Wiswall,  Jackson  and  Brooks,  Waldo  Co.  1  3-4 
months. 

Amount  of  missionary  labor  and  general  results. 

The  Trustees  have  had  in  the  employ  of  the  Society,  during  the 
year  now  closing,  GO  missionaries,  (13  in  advance  of  the  number  em- 
ployed, the  year  preceding,)  the  aggregate  of  whose  labors  is  about 
14  years.  39  of  these  are  pastors  of  feeble  churches,  whose  services 
have  been  restricted  to  the  people  of  their  charge,  and  the  remaining 
21  have  occupied  more  extended  fields  of  labor.  Revivals  of  religion, 
though  not  so  numerous  as  in  some  past  years,  have  nevertheless 
been  witnessed  under  the  ministrations  of  the  missionaries,  in  a  good 
number  of  the  churches.  These  have  been  chiefly  in  the  western 
section  of  the  State.  He  that  walks  amid  the  golden  candlesticks, 
and  holds  the  stars  in  his  right  hand,  has  shewn  the  power  of  his 
grace,  "the  lighting  down  of  his  arm."  From  about  20  places,  the 
reports  of  the  missionaries  give  notice  of  special  displays  of  grace, 
more  or  less  extensive  ;  and  the  number  of  hopeful  converts  is  esti- 
mated at  a  little  more  than  300.  Most  of  these  revivals,  however,  are 
of  so  recent  date,  that  few  comparatively  have  as  yet  joined  to  the 
churches. 

The  Trustees  have  made  provision  for  the  supply  of  the  destitute, 
in  some  degree,  in  every  section  of  the  state.  Not  that  all  have  been 
supplied  ;  very  far  from  it.  But  with  the  means  confided  to  their 
trust,  "they  have  done  what  they  could."  And  they  have  feared,  (so 
multiplied  and  pressing  have  been  the  calls,)  that  they  had  gone  be- 
yond their  means.  And  for  the  last  quarter  of  the  year,  they  have  not 
felt  themselves  justified,  in  increasing  the  liabilities  of  the  Society,  by 
making  additional  appropriations.  6  of  the  missionaries  have  been 
settled,  during  the  year,  over  feeble  churches,  under  the  patronage  of 
this  Society. 

State  of  tlie finances. 

During  the  year,  there  has  been  received  a  legacy  of  Richard  Cobb 
Esq.  late  of  Boston,  of  2500  dollars.  This  amount  liquidated  the 
debt  of  the  Society,  contracted  at  the  last  anniversary,  for  the  pay- 
ment of  missionaries  for   previous  services.    The  usual  receipts  into 


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the  treasury  have  not  varied  materially  from  those  of  the  year  pre- 
ceding, amounting  to  5611  62.  Though  the  "pressure"  may,  in  some 
measure,  have  been  taken  off,  the  remembrance  of  it  is  still  retained. 
And  indeed  in  some  places  of  the  state  it  lias  been  felt  at  no  time  more 
than  in  the  year  past. 

The  expenditures  of  the  Society,  for  the  year  have  been  about 
6000  dollars.  4009  dollars  of  this  are  still  due.  There  is  a  balance 
in  the  treasury,  in  available  funds,  of 1591  94  ;  leaving  about  2500  dol- 
lars to  be  received  at  this  meeting,  in  order  to  enable  the  Trustees  to 
adjust  the  claims  of  missionaries,  for  labors  already  performed  ;  and 
to  obey  the  apostolic  precept:  "Owe  no  man  any  thing."  This  a- 
mount,  it  is  hoped  and  believed,  will  be  received  during  these  anni- 
versaries, in  favor  of  this  Institution. 

Field  of  Labor. 

Allusion  has  already  been  made  to  the  northeastern  section  of  the 
State.  Jt  presents  a  vast  extent  of  territory,  and  is  fast  filling  up  with 
an  enterprising  population.  The  means  of  grace  must  be  gratuitous- 
ly furnished  to  them,  or  they  will  remain  destitute.  JYbiv  is  emphati- 
cally the  time  to  send  them  the  gospel,  before  they  forget  the  influ- 
ence of  Christian  ordinances  they  have  left,  and  become  reckless  in 
their  course.  One  need  not  be  a  prophet,  nor  the  son  of  a  prophet, 
to  be  able  to  divine  what  aspect  of  moral  character,  a  people  would 
exhibit,  living  without  Sabbaths  and  without  Christian  ordinances  ; 
or  what  kind  of  influence  they  would  exert  upon  each  other,  and 
upon  the  rising  generation.  It  would  be  evil  and  only  evil  continual- 
ly. And  these  means  of  grace  must  be  furnished  to  them  by  their 
brethren  more  favorably  situated,  till  they  have  ability  and  inclination 
to  sustain  divine  ordinances  themselves.  The  Trustees  have  before 
them  an  application  from  New  Brunswick,  adjoining  our  own  ter- 
ritory, pressing  as  the  cry  from  Macedonia,  for  help.  And  though 
it  cannot  be  responded  to,  as  the  operations  of  the  Society  are  restric- 
ted to  the  State  ;  yet  it  goes  to  shew  more  hilly  the  importance  of 
religious  establishments  here,  to  diffuse  a  healthful  influence  on  both 
sides  of  the  border.  Or,  if  nothing  more,  they  might  stand  as  a  dyke, 
to  prevent  the  inundation  of  our  own  land  by  a  flood  of  evil  influen- 
ces from  abroad. 

But  this  is  not  the  only  destitution  in  the  field  of  labor.  If  it  were, 
the  call  might  he  easily  met.  There  is  something  of  a  similar  char- 
acter in  every  part  of  the  State. 

In  Penobscot  and  Piscataquis  counties,  there  are  25  Churches  ;  and 
many  other  places  where  Churches  might  be  embodied ;  and  yet 
only  6  pastors.  There  are  several  stated  supplies,  and  occasional 
preaching  afforded  in  various  places.  16  of  these  churches  will  need 
aid.  This  Society  has  furnished  aid  to  the  greater  portion  of  the  des- 
titute Churches  in  this  region,  in  the  course  of  the  year  past ;  not  to 
the  amount  that  could  have  been  wished  ;  but  in  some  measure  in 
accordance  with  the  limited  means  possessed.  As  there  are  con- 
stantly breakings-in  upon  the  forest,  and  new  settlements  rising  up, 
much  more  must  be  done,  to  give  a  healthy  influence  to  the  opera- 
tions of  religion  ;  much  more  aid  must  be  "furnished,  to  cause  the 
means  of  grace,  in  any  good  measure,  to  keep  pace  with  a  rapidly 
extending  population. 

In  the  counties  of  Somerset  and  Franklin,  there  are  23  Churches, 
with    14   pastors.     But  within  these   limits,  there  are  only  6  places, 


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where  the  people  wholly    sustain  the  ordinances  of  religion    them- 
selves. 

In  the  counties  of  Kennebec  and  Oxford  there  are  38  Churches. 
19  of  these  have  pastors,  and  10  have  stated  supplies.  14  of  these 
Churches  sustain  the  ordinances  of  worship,  and  the  remaining  24 
look  for  aid,  if  they  continue  to  enjoy  the  stated  means  of  grace.  The 
late  revivals  of  religion,  however,  in  the  county  of  Oxford,  will 
give   some  additional  strength  to  their  establishments. 

In  the  6  remaining  counties,  stretching  along  300  miles  of  sea- 
coast,  being  of  an  earlier  date,  are  better  supplied  with  the  means  of 
grace.  But  even  here,  there  are  many  feeble  churches,  that  must 
be  aided,  if  they  continue  to  live  and  flourish  ;  as  also  many  waste 
places  to  be  built  up,  and  some  of  them  "desolations  of  many  genera- 
tions." 

[t  may  be  thought,  perhaps,  if  the  calls  are  so  multiplied,  and  the 
regions  of  destitution  so  vast,  in  the  lengthof  them,  and  in  the  breadth 
of  them,  little  or  nothing  can  as  yet  have  been  done.  There  have  been 
the  operations  of  many  years,  and  much  wealth,  and  care  and  labor 
have  been  expended  ;  but  where  are  the  results  ?  The  calls,  instead 
of  diminishing,  annually  increasing.  Much  has  already  been  done. 
Not  only  has  aid  been  afforded  to  the  destitute,  in  successive  years, 
extending  the  restraining  and  salutary  influence  of  the  gospel  into  ev- 
ery section  of  the  State  ;  but  two  thirds  of  all  the  churches,  that  now 
enjoy  the  stated  means  of  grace,  (and  they  are  more  than  130)  have 
been  aided  in  securing  these  blessings,  by  the  charities  of  the  Chris- 
tian public  through  the  instrumentality  of  this  Institution.  How 
different  would  have  been  the  aspect  of  this  day,  on  this  "holy  con- 
vocation," had  all  these  churches  been  left  to  struggle  with  their  dif- 
ficulties single  handed,  and  many  of  them  to  languish  and  die  ! 

And  still  it  is  true,  alas  !  too  true,  that  much,  very  much  land  yet 
remains  to  be  possessed.  The  calls  for  aid  will  wax  louder  and 
still  louder,  till  the  work  is  accomplished.  The  means  this  society 
possesses  are  all  together  too  limited,  to  supply  these  extended  wants. 
Its  resources  should  be  doubled.  Nothing  short  of  this  could,  in 
any  adequate  measure,  meet  the  exigency.  And  if  the  wants  were 
pondered,  reflected  upon,  prayed  over,  brought  home  to  the  conscience 
and  the  heart,  and  their  importance  realized,  it  is  confidently  believ- 
ed, this  would  be  the  case.  Many  would  come  up  to  the  help  of 
the  Lord  against  the  mighty.  They  would  cheerfully  respond  to 
that  declaration  of  the  Most  High  ;  The  silver  and  the  gold  are 
mine  ;  and  it  would  be  cast  into  the  treasury  of  the  Lord.  Then,  with 
the  blessing  of  God,  the  gospel  would  be  preached  in  every  place, 
within  our  borders,  with  the  Holy  Ghost  sent  down  from  heaven  ; 
and  we  might  hail  with  gratitude  the  fulfilment  of  the  declaration  of 
the  evangelical  prophet ;  "The  wilderness  and  the  solitary  place  shall 
be  glad  for  them,  and  the  desert  shall  rejoice  and  blossom  as  the  rose." 

The  Trustees,  in  conclusion,  would  commend  the  cause  anew,  to 
the  friends  of  the  Redeemer,  who  have  hitherto  by  their  charities 
sustained  its  operations,  and  who  have  not  yet  become  weary  in  well 
doing ;  earnestly  entreating  the  continuance  and  increase  of  their 
alms  and  prayers  and  efforts.  And  especially  would  they  commend 
it  to  that  God  whose  cause  it  is,  with  devout  thanksgivings,  that  he  has 
hitherto  vouchsafed  his  fostering  care,  and  crowned  their  labors  with 
success. 


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RECEIPTS. 


Thk  Treasurer  acknowledges  the  receipt  of  the  following  sums  from  June 
25,  1838,,  to  June  24,  1839,  viz  : 


Many— "A  Friend,"  1  00 

"  Aaron  Cummings  an  1838  2  00 
"  Mrs.  Aaron  Cummings  "  2  00 
»     Ephraim  Flint,  "     2  00 

■"     Aaron  Cummings  an  1839  2  00 
"     Mrs.  Susan  Cummings  "     2  00 
all  by  Rev.  A.  Cummings. 
Alna — Cont  in  Rev.  E.  Merrill's 

soc.  5  00 

«  Stephen  Coker  an  1838  2  00 
"  Mary  A.  Nelson  do  2  00 
"  Rev.  E.  Merrill,  dona.  2  00 
»  Mrs.  II.  A.  Merrill,  do  2  00 
"  Children  of  Rev. E.  Merrill  1  00 
five  last  s  urns  to  const,  in 
part  Benj.H.  Merrill  L.  M. 
"     Paul  Pearson   to  complete 

hisL.M.  10  00 

"     Juvenile  Soc.  1  73 

"     Miss   Laura    Stebbcns  an 

1838,  2  00 

Andover — Church  contributed  at 

Monthly  Concert,  2  00 

"     Ezekiel  Merrill  1  00 

"     Sam'l  Poor  and  wife,  1  00 

"     Moses  Merrill  50 

by  W.  Goodenow. 

Albion — Cont  in    Cong.  Soc.  by 

Rev.  Mr.  Wilkins  2  90 

Alfred Miss.  Soc.  Mrs.  S.  A. 

Goodenow,  Tr.    by  Rev. 
Mr.  Fisk,  16  80 

Anson— Sub  of  Individuals  9724 

cont  in  ch.  &  soc.  2  76    100  00 
Athens — Subscriptions  of  indi- 
viduals    '  100  DO 
Augusta — Win.  A.    Brooks  to 

constitute  himself  L.  M.  20  00 
"  James  L.  Child,  $16  00, 
to  complete  life  mem- 
bership of  Daniel  C. 
Child  and  $4,  towards 
L.  M.  of  Hannah  Swan 
Child,  20  0( 

"  Sewing  Circle  to  const 
Miss  Susan  Stanwood 
a  life  member  20  00 


Bath 


Mrs.  Tappan  to  complete 
L.  M.  of  Hannah  W. 
Tappan  10  00 

A.Redington,jr.  an  1838  2  00 
John  Means    '  do      2  00 

Levi  Page,  jr.  do      2  00 

Jonas  G.  Holcomb  do  2  00 
Larkin  M.  Leland  do  2  00 
Joseph  E.  Ladd  do      2  00 

Mark  Nason  do      2  00 

John  T.  Gilpatrick  do  2  00 
George  Griffin  do      2  00 

J.  J.Kilburn  do      2  00 

Thomas  Little  do      2  00 

Miss  HannahTappan  do  2  00 
Henry  Sewall,  dona  10  25 

Three  other  individuals  14  00 
Ladies  Association  50  00 

Church  includingMonth- 
ly  Concert  coll.  for  6 
months  68  55 

T.  W.  Smith,    an   1838, 

by  Rev.  Mr.  Tappan       2  00 
Monthly  Concert  20  00 

— Green    Richardson,    to 
const,    his   wife    Mrs. 
Hannah    T.    Richard- 
son, a  life  member         20  00 
same,  an  1838  2  00 

Cont.  in  Rev.  Mr.  Elling- 
wood's     soc.     $50    of 
which  by  Mrs.    Rich- 
ardson to    const  Fred. 
L.  Richardson  &  John 
G.  Richardson  1.  mem- 
bers 69  62 
Ammi  R.    Mitchell  bal. 
to  constitute  his  wife  a 
life  member  10  00 
David  Sewall    an  1838       2  00 
Eben  Arnold          do  2  00 
Benj.  Robinson       do  2  00 
Hartley  Gove         do           2  00 
Henry  Hyde           do  2  00 
Wm.'Donnell         do  2  00 
Richard  Nutter       do  2  00 
Thomas  Agry         do  2  00 


35 


"  Daniel  Larrabee  do 
"  VVm.  B.  Trufant  do 
"     John  Masters  do 

«  Thomas  Harwood  do 
"  Tileslon  Cusliing  do 
"     Jona.  Hyde  do 

"  Gilbert  Trufant  do 
«  John  Stockbridge  do 
«  Charles  Sewall  do 
«  David  C.  Magoun  do 
"     S.  G.  Stinson  do 

"     J.F.Trott  part  of  do 
"     Wm.  Richardson  do 
«     T.  C.  Jackson  ent. 
"     Charles  Clapp,  jr.  in  part 
to  const  himself  a   L. 
JVI.  by  D.  C.  Magoun 
«     Levi  Houghton  an  1838 
"     Gershom  Hyde       do 
"     Wm.  M.  Rogers     do 
»     John  Bovcy  do 

"     Otis  Kimball  do 

»  Warren  Houghton  do 
»  Collection  in  Rev.  Mr. 
Palmer's  soc.  by  hand 
of  Rev.  Ray  Palmer 
«  Female  Missionary  As- 
sociation 3d  ch.  and 
cong.  by  Rev.  R.  Pal- 
mer 

'«     Adam  Lcmont  to  const, 
himself  a  life  member 
«     Ebenezer  Arnold 
"     Freeman  Clark  to  const, 
himself  and    his  wife, 
Frances  L.    Clark,  life 
members 
«     Female  Cent    Soc.    Mrs. 

Ellingwood,  Tr. 
"     Wm.  Donnell,  to    const. 
his  wife    Mrs.  Harriet 
Donnell    a  L.    M.   by 
Rev.  J.  W.  Ellingwood 
»     Zabdiel   Hyde    to  const. 
Wm.    Henry  Hyde  of 
Portland  a  L.  M. 
Brookfidd,  (Ms.)— Miss  Persis 
Howe,  to  const.  Mrs. 
Ann    Waterhouse    of 
Portland  a  L.  M. 
Bucksport—Wm.  Thurston  an 
1839  by  Rev.  A.  Cum- 
in ings 
«     From    Ladies  by    E.   F. 
Duren,  Tr. 
Bangor — To  bo  added  to  cont. 
in  Rev.  Mr.  Pomroy's 
cong. 
Mrs.  Win    Bruce, 


15  50 


25  50 


Win.  Thurston,  an  1838    2  00 
E   F.  Duren,  "         2  °° 

H.  Wilder,  dona.  100 

by  hand  ofE.F.  Duren, 
Tr.  Penobscot  Aux.  So. 
Cont.  in  Hammond  St. 
church,  $20  of  which 
sub.  of  Prof.  Shepard  to 
const.  Geo.  H.  Shepard 
a  life  member  and  $20 
from  John  McDonald  to 
const,  himself  a  L.  M.  147  00 
Cont.  in  Rev.  Mr.  Pom- 
roy's church  and  soc.  by 
Rev.  Mr.  Pomroy  137  02 

To  be  added   to  cont.  in 
first  Cong.  soc.  by  Rev. 
Mr.  Pomroy 
James  Crosby    to    const, 
widow  Hannah  Crosby 
and  Eliashib  Adams  life 
members 
Mrs.  Ordway 
"     Haskell 
Mark  Webster 
Bethel — Cont.    in    Rev.    Mr. 

Frost's  soc.  by  his  hand  10  7o 
50 
00 


5  00 


50  00 

1  00 

25 

50 


Biddeford— Miss  Betsey  Hill 
Belfast—  Mrs.  Sarah  Houston 
»     Cont.  in  Rev.    Mr.  Mc- 

Keen's  soc. 
"     Samuel  Butman 

John  Gilman    an  1838 
Henry  Davidson  do 
Bailey  Pierce         do 
John  McKinley    do 
Luther  Gannett     do 
Baldwin— Ephraim    Flint  by 
Rev.  Mr.  Gooch 
From  Dea.  Richardson's 
family 
Bristol— Anonymous  "Surplus 
money"    in    a    letter  to 
Rev.  A.  Cummings 
W.  Chamberlain  an  1838 
Cont.  at  Bristol  Mills 
Sewall  Pearson's  an  1838 
James  G.  Huston's  do 
Jos.  T.  Huston's      do 
20  00      "     Thomas  Woodward  do 
«     Tho's  Chamberlain  do 
by  Rev.  Mr.  Kendrick. 
Brqionvillc — Cont.    in    Cong, 
soc. 
(II)       "      Female  Miss.  soc. 

"     Female  so.  by  Mrs.  Wm. 
Lord     . 
00  Brunswick— Mrs.  Jane  Hacke' 
UU  Mrs   Nelson 


mi 


III! 


2  00 


30  00 

1  00 

2  00 
2  00 
2  00 
2  00 

2  00 

1  Of) 

3  00 


8  00 
2  00 
11  45 
2  00 
2  00 
2  00 
2  00 
2  00 


111  39 

2  41 

62 
1  00 

3  00 


;j(> 


"       C.  Eaton 
"       Mrs.  Marsh 
"       Henry  Pennell 
"       Ann  Junes 
"       H.  Dunning 
"       E.  Harvey 
"        Dr.  Page 
"       John  S.  Crosby 

by  Rov.  Geo.  E.  Adams. 
"  From  a  Son  to  const. 
Benjamin  Woodman 
of  Burlington,  (Me.) 
a  life  member  by  Rev. 
A.  Cummings 
"       David  Dunlap  1 

"       Professor  Packard 
"       Rev.  Wm.  Alien 
Bridirton — Cont.  in  Rev.    Mr. 

Page's  soc. 
Bremen — People  in  Cong.  soo. 
to  const.   James  Carru- 
thers  u  life  member 
"     People  in  Cong,  hoc 
Buxton — Cont.    at    York    Co. 
Conf.  at  Buxton  in  June 
"     Rev.  B&nj.  Rice  to  const 
his  son  Win.  W.  Rice  a 
life  member 
"     Asa  Brown 
11     Josiah  Jo.as 
"     Stephen  Adams 
"     James  Emery 
"     Female  Gent   soc.    Mrs. 
Lucy  W.    Rice,   Tr.  to 
const,    in    part     Zenas 
Paine  of  Buxton,  a  life 
member  by  Rev.  B.  Rice 
"     James  Emery 
"     Female  cont.  to  complete 
L.  M.  of  Mr.  Z.   Paine, 
by  Mrs.  Rice 
"     Josiah  Foss 
Brownjicld — Samuel   Stickney 

an  1837  and  1838 
Cornish — "From    a   Friend  of 
Missions"  by  Royal  Lin- 
coln 
Castine — Trinitarian  Soc. 
"     Mrs.  Samuel    Adams   to 
const.  Rev.  B.  B.  Bcck- 
with  a  life  member 
Corinna — Mrs.  Nutter  by  E.  F. 

Duren,  Tr.  &c. 
Chesterville — Jos.    French    an 
1838,  by  Rev.  J.  Sevvall 
"     Cont.  in  Cong.  soc. 
Camden — Cont.    in    Rev.     N 
Chapman's  soc. 
"     A  friend  in  Camden 


1  00 
I  00 

1  00 
50 
50 
50 

2  00 
50 

30  00 

00  00 

5.00 

50  00 

11  25 

20  00 
18  00 

17  09 

20  00 

1  00 

1  00 

1  00 

50 

16  00 
5  00 

4  00 
2  00 

4  00 

5  00 
20  00 

20  00 

50 

•i  00 
9  11 

23  08 
r.  oo 

23  oo 
2  00 
1  50 
1  00 

23  41 


5  00 


4  50 


2  00 
1  00 


Female  Miss.    soc.    Mrs. 
Huldah  llobbs,  Tr. 
Jos.  Jones,  an  1838 
Jonah  Howe 
Juven.  soc.  Betsey  Start 
Calais — Cont.    by     Rev.     Mr. 

Crossett 
Cape    Elizabeth— Mrs.    E.    II. 
Webster     by     Rev.    A. 
Cummings 
Cumberland — Female  Miss.  so.  11  25 
Cont.  in  Rev.  Mr.  Wes- 
ton's soc. 

Nicholas  Ridcout,  jr.  an 
1838 
Rev.  J.  Weston 
Dcnnysrillc — Cont.     by     Rev. 

Mr.  Crossett  30  59 

Dresden — Dea.    Woodman  by 

Rev.  E.  Gillett  50 

Denmark— llev .  James  Gooch 

dona  2  00 

Mrs.  Mary  C.  Gooch,  ent  1  00 
do       do         do  an  1838  2  00 
Cont  in  Rev.  Mr.Gooch's 
soc. 
Dixficld — Cont.  in    church  by 
Rev.  Mr.  Jordan 
Mrs.  Sarah  B.  Eustis 
Dixmont — Mrs.    Frederick  A. 

Butman  an  1838 
Deer  Isle — Female    Cent   soc. 
Mrs.  H.  P.  C.  Haskell, 
Treas. 
East  Brewer — Cong,  church  by 

E.  F.  Duren,  Tr.  &c 
Ellsworth — From     Rev.    Mr. 
Tenney's  soc.  by   hand 
of  Rev.  Horatio  Islcy 
Miss  Rebecca  Fickey 
Ladies  Circle  of  Industry  15  00 
Cont.    in    Cong.  soc.  by 
E.  F.  Duren,  Tr.  of  Pe- 
nobscot Co.  Aux'y  so. 
Eliot — Female  Benevolent  so. 

by  Rev.  Mr.  Bacon 
Eastbrook—  Mrs. Charlotte  Par- 
sons by  Rev.  A.  Cum- 
mings 
Eastport— Cont.    at    Monthly 
Concert  and  donations, 
Central    Cong.    soc.   by 
hand  of  G.  A.  Peabody  30  00 
"     Central  Cong.  so.  month- 
ly conceit    by    Geo.  A 
Peabody 
Foxcroft — Cong.   eh.  by    E.  F 

Duren,  Tr.  &c. 
Falmouth — Female    Miss,  soc 


5  00 

9  50 
5  00 

2  00 


20  00 
7  79 


10  50 
1  00 


10  50 
10  00 

3  00 


35  00 

4  7J 


:H 


iMids  Betsey  Morrill,  Tr.    10  00 
Second  church    and  soc. 
to  const.  Mrs.  Lydia  Ste- 
vens a  member  for  life, 
by  Rev.  Joseph  Stevens  20  14 
Fairfield — iBaac   Somes,  dona 

by  Rev.  Thomas  Adams  8  00 
Farmington — Female  Miss.  soc. 
Mrs.  E.  F.   Rogers,  Tr. 
to  const.  Mrs.  Abigail  S. 
Green,  a  life  member 
"     Rev.  Mr.  Rogers  to  com- 
plete L.  M.  of  Isaac  R. 
Adams 
"     Cont.  in   Rev.  Mr.  Rog- 
ers's soc.  by  Rev.  Mr. 
Rogers 
"     Jacob    Abbot,    $20    of 
which  to  constitute  Mrs. 
Sarah  Dummer  of  Hal- 
lowell,  a  life  member 
Fryeburg — Sewing  Circle,  Mrs 
Anne  K.    Barrows,   Tr. 
to  const,    widow    Eliza- 
beth Hurd,  a  life  mem- 
ber 
»     Jos.    Colby    in    part    to 
const.    Mrs.     Catharine 
Walker  a  lifo  member 
"     Cont.  in  Rev.  Mr.  Ilurd's 
soc. 
Gorkam — Benevolent    Society 
by  Rev.  T.  Pomcroy 
"     Young     Ladies     Sewing 
Circle  by  same 
Gouldsborou<rli— Mrs.      Maria 
Bucknam    by    Rev.    A. 
Cummings  1  00 

Gardiner — Cont.  in  Cong.  soc.  14  41 


20  00 


10  00 


8  84 


25  00 


20  00 


10  00 


42  75 
18  00 


15  00 
2  00 
2  00 
2  00 


20  00 
2  00 

17  00 
2  00 
2  00 
2  00 

95  00 


6  06 


By 

by 
By 

by 


Monthly  Concert 
'•     Female     Miss.     soc. 
Rev.  S.  Sweetser 
Gray— .Cont.  in   Cong,  soc 

N.  W.  Sheldon 
Harrison — Cong,     church, 

Rev.  Mr.  Searle, 
Hampden — Cong,    church, 
E.  F.  Duren,  Tr.  &c. 
"     Willard  Wheeler  by  do.    10  00 
"     Wm.  Babcock  by      do.     10  00 
"     Jacob  Curtis,  Jr.        do 
The   three  last  sums 
to  be  appropriated  to  the 
Ministerial  support  of  the 
Rev.    Robert  Page,  Le- 
vant Me. 
■•     Benjamin  Crosby  to  aid 


10  53 
5  37 

86 

11  50 


10  00. 


in  support  of  Rev.  J.  R 
Munsell  Missionary  at — 
Lincoln  ^  "»' 

Hallo  veil— Ladies     Miss.  Ass. 
Miss  Harriet  Page,  Tr. 
"      Benj.  Pago  an. 1838 
"     Miss  Harriet  Page        do 
•«     Miss  Julia  Ann  Page    do 
"     Cont.  in  Female    prayer 
meeting,    to  const.   Mrs. 
Mary  Caroline  Thurston 
a  life  member 
"     Eben  Dole     an  1838 
"     Monthly    Concert  collec- 
tions 
"     A.  Alden       an  1838 
««     Win.  Stickaey      do 
"     E.  Bond  do 

"     Cont.  in  Cong.  soc. 
"     Mrs.  Elizabeth  Leach,  to 
complete   L.  M.  of  Mrs. 
Elizabeth  F.  Shepard 
"     Wm.    Stickaey  to  const, 
his  mother  Mrs.  Dorothy 
L.  Stickney  a  life  mem- 
ber 
"     Mrs.    Hannah    Dole,    to 
const,  herself  a  life  mem- 
ber 
"     Mrs.    Sophia  E.  Bond  to 
const.    Geo.     Shepard, 
son  of  R.  G.    Lincoln  a 
life  member 
"     Rev.  E.    Gillet,    sub.   in 
part  to  const,  his  daugh- 
ter Grace  H.  Gillet  a  life 
member 
"     James  Gow      an     1838, 
by  Rev.  E.  Gillet 
Harps-wall — From  a   friend   to 
Missionary     effort,     by 
Rev.  Jotham  Sewall 
Jos.  Eaton,  an  1838 
Industry— Cont.     by   hand   of 

Rev.  I.  Rogers 
Kenncbunk-Port—F'usl  Parish 
contributed  by  three  In- 
dividuals by    Rev.  Silas 
Baker 
Lebanon — John  Moody  jr.    an. 
1S38 
"     Cont.  in    Rev.    Mr.   Lor- 
ing's  soc. 
Limerick— Rev.  C.  Freeman 
"     Mrs.  C.  Freeman 
"     Samuel  Mai  tin 
"     Wm.  Swazey 


5  00 


20  00 


20  00 


0  00 


10  00 


2  00 


1  00 

2  00 

5  50 


11  00 
2  00 

10  00 

4  00 
1  00 

5  00 
5  00 


38 


••'      John  A.  Won  ill 

"     Mrs.  Mary  Morrill 

"      Ebon  Adams 

"     Simeon  Barker 

"     Other  subscriptions 

««  Cont.  in  Rev.  Mr.  Free- 
man's soc. 

"     Rev.  C.  Freeman 

"     Samuel  Martin 

"     John  A.  Morrill 

"     Eben  Adams 

"     Mrs.  S.  A.  Freeman 

'«     Other  Sums 

"     Cont.  in  Cong.  Soc. 
[.(rant — Church  dona 

"     Church,  to  be   added    to 
cont. 
Limington — Cont.  in  Cong.  so. 

"     Female  Retrenchment  so. 
Litchfield — Thomas   Smith   an 
1838 

"      Isaac  Smith  do. 

"     Zachariah  Smith  do. 

"     Female  Cent  soc. 

"     Cont.  by  Rev.    Timothy 
Davis 
fjtibec — Rev.  Isaac  Carlton    to 
const  himself  a  L.  M. 

"     Cont.  in  Rev.  I.  Carlton's 
soc.   by    hand    of  Rev. 
Mr.  Carlton, 
Madison — Subscriptions  of  In- 
dividuals 

"     Cont.  in  Cong,  soc 

"     Benj.  Weston,  an  1838 
Minot — David  Green  an.    1339 
by  Rev.  A.  Curnmings 

"      Female  Aux'y  soc. 

"  Collection  in  Rev.  Mr. 
Jones's  soc.  by  Rev.  E- 
lijah  Jones 

"     Daniel  Freeman  an  1838 

"     J.  Allen  do 

"     S.  Pool  do 

"     A.  Packard  do 

"     Mrs.  E.  Jones         do 

"     D.  Freeman  do 

"     Win.  Ladd 
Miscellaneous — In  part  to  const 
an  individual  a  life  mem- 
ber from  W. 

"  From  another  individual 
by  hand  of  Rev.  Mr. 
Searle 

Cumberland  Conf.  chs. 
coll'd  at  meeting  in 
Freeport 


4  00 

1  00 

1  06 

1  00 

7  00 

7  62 

4  00 

5  00 

2  00 

1  00 

1  00 

7  50 

9  90 

10  00 

3  00 

1  50 

4  25 

2  00 

2  00 

2  00 

6  42 

3  58 


20  00 


7  10 


53  09 

3  50 
2  00 


2  00 


3  65 
2  50 


25 

a  oo 
10  oo 

8  50 
5  00 


7  50 

13  00 

2  00 

2  00 

2  00 

2  00 

2  00 

2  00 

15  00 

5  60 

75 

54  37 

Rec'd  interest  on  $300 
bequeathed  by  lateBrycc 
McLellan  from  Oct.  25, 
1838,  to  Jan.  7,  1839 

Interest  on  money  loaned 

To  be  added  to  coll.  at 
Climb.  Conf.  Chs.  Free- 
port  by  Rev.  W.  B.  Ad- 
ams 

Int.  on  money  loaned 

Somerset  Co.  Conf. 

Cont.  in  Rev.  Mr.  Un- 
derwood's soc 

A  mariner,  dona 

Legacy  of  Bryce  McLel- 
lan, late  of  Bloomfield, 
deceased,  by  his  Execu- 
tor, Brooks  Dascomb, 
the  Interest  of  ichich 
only  to  be  used  300  00 

Lincoln  Co.  Conf.  of  chs.  19  50 

York  Co.  Conf.  of  chs.     14  19 

York  Co.  Conf.  of  chs. 
by  Rev.  Ivory  Kimball    20  31 

Dividend  on  15  shares  in 
Casco  Bank 

Dividend  on  7  shares  in 
Manufacturers'  and  Tra- 
ders Bank 

Cumb.  Conf.  of  chs.  cont 
at  Minot,  by  Charles  G. 
Downes 

Oxford  Conf.  chs.  by 
Wm.  Goodnow 

Legacy  from  Executors 
of  late  Richard  Cobb  of 
Boston  2500  00 

Machias — Female  Miss'y  soc.    20  75 

Rev.  S.  D.  Ward  by  Rev. 
A.  Curnmings 
Mount  Desert — Ladies  in  Rev. 
M.  W.  Strickland's  soc. 
by  his  hand 
Milo — Mrs.  Priscilla  Lee,  by 
Rev.  Dr.  Tond 
do. 
Monmouth — N.  Pierce,  by  Rev. 

Mr.  Thurston 
North  Bridgton — Cong.  ch.  by 

Rev.  Mr.  Searle 

Rev.  Jos.  Searle 
Mrs.  Searle 
North  Augusta — Cont. 

Female    Miss'y   soc 

Rev.  E.  Gillett 
Newfield — Cont.  in   Cong 

and  soc.    by   Rev. 


15  00 


21  00 


19  65 


47  50 


3  00 


12  00 

2  00 

2  00 

2  00 


4  83 

4  00 

3  00 

2  62 

by 

6  19 

ch. 

Mr. 

39 


mi 


18  54 


10  00 


Smith  in  part  to  const. 
Tim'y  Symmea  a  L.  M. 
Worth  Yarmouth-Id  parish, 
Domestic  Female  Miss. 
80C.  Mrs.  Caleb  Ho- 
bart,  Tr. 
«     Cont.  in  Rev.   Mr.  Ho- 

hart's  soc 
"     Wm.  Sweetsir  an  183S 
First  Church  and  Society. 
"     Sylvanus   Blanchard,    in 
part  to  const.  Mrs.  Han- 
nah Prince  a  L.  M. 
"     Jacob  G.  Loring   in  part 
to  const   his   wife   Mrs 

Des.ah  Loring  a  L.  M.     iu    J  Ladieg  in  Cong,  soc 

«     Wm.  Chandler  Ko„     Charles 

»     Wm.  R-  Hunter 
"     Friend 

«     Jeremiah  Mitchell 
<<     Tristram  G.  Cleaves 
"     Daniel  Mitchell 
«     T.  G.  Mitchell 
"     Ezekiel  Merrill 

«     David  Pratt   2d  1  JJI  ^prfMr!  W.  B.  Has- 

»     Matthias  Allen  *"  *,     a    Licentiate,   by 

«     Jos.  Chandler,  jr.  '»  ««  A  c   M,  foxcroft, 

«     David  Seabury   to   com-  »» 

ptatehtoUfemamlMnliip  10  •Jl^ — B^w-   Mr.    Hulin 
"     Paul  Prince,  jr. 


10  00 


.  I  »  I  I 

member 

Second    Parish,   Female 

Domestic    Miss'y    *oe. 

Mrs.  Hobart,  Tr.  >«'  -,J 

Cont.    in    2d   Parish   by 

Rev.  Mr.  Hobart,  '  » 

First  Parish  Female  Cent 

soc.  Mrs.    Shepley,  Tr. 

by  hand    of  Rev.    Mr. 

jYctt-Castfc_-Cont.HiRev.Mr. 

Sewall's  soc. 
Washington    Dodge    an 
1888 

Rev.  Mr.  Sewall   bal.  of 
sub 


3  00 
1  00 


50 

50 

5  00 

1  00 

2  00 
1  00 
5  00 
1  00 

3  001 
10  00 


t.  Rev.   Charles 
Soule  and  wife  life  mem- 

40  0<) 
hers  , . 

Avails  of  a  gold  necklace 
by  Wm.  E.  Goodenow 
Mw   Gloucester— Sewing  Cir- 
cle, Lower   Village,  to 
complete   life   member- 


3  65 


10  00 


Samuel  Mason 

Thomas  Chase,  jr.  in  part 

to  const,  his    wife    Mrs. 

Sarah  Chase,  a  L.  M. 
Samuel  Sweetsir 

do  do     an  183b 

Enos  Chandler  in  part  to 

const,  himself  a  L.  M. 

Reuben  Chandler 

Donation 

R.  L.  Storer 

Thomas  J.  Brown 

Jere.  Mitchell,  2d 

Allen  H.  Weld 
i     Eleazer  Burbank 

<  Jacob  Mitchell 

<  Fred.  A.  Pomroy 

«     Rev.  David  Shepley 

«     John  Cutter,  jr. 

■•*     John  Cutter 

«  do  an  1838 

"     Cont.  in  church  and  soc. 

«     Newell  Soc.  by  Rev.  Mr. 

Shepley 
«     First  Parish,  from  Juve- 
nile Soc.  in  part  to  const 
Miss  Anna  Baker  a  life 


1  00' 


10  00 
5  00 
2  00 

10  00 


/(//( *•»**  -  -       - 

sub.  by  Rev.  Mr.  Cum- 

mings 
Cxford— J.   Tewksbury   dona 

by   hand  of  Rev.    Asa 

Cummings 
Monthly  Concert 
Cont.  in   Cong.   soc.    by 

Rev.  Mr.  Chute 


1  00 


5  00 
5  67 


6  33 


1  00 \Otisfield- Individuals  in  Rev. 
J.  P.  R.ichardson's   soc. 
to  complete  life  member- 
ship of  Elias  Hancock 
Silas  Blake  an.  1838 
To  be  added   to  cont.  in 
Cong.  soc. 
2  00 \0ld  2W-Mrs.  N.   Bates  by 


13  00 
2  00 

1  00 


1  oo 

2  00 


26  00 


Rev.   Mr.    Lovejoy 
Rev.  Mr.  Lovejoy  an  88 
Orcno—  (Stillwater)    cont.    in 

Rev.  Mr.  Parker's   soc. 

by  his  hand  16  80 

Orland— Mrs.  Sarah  T.  Buck 

an.  1837  and  1838   by 

Rev.  D.  Thurston  4  00 

Pittsfon— Female  Sewing  Cir- 

cle  by  Miss  Cutts  10  00 

{Poland— Cont.    in    Rev.    Mr. 


40 


Williams's  soc.  3  20 

Eliza  S.  Williams  half  of 
her  share  of  Surplus 
Money  by  hand  of  Kev 

Thos.  Williams  1  0i 

Phipsbiirg — From  individuals 

by  Hev.  J.  Boynton  3  00 

"     Mark  L.  Hill  air.  1838         2  00 

"     Cont.  in  Cong.  soc.  1G  50 

Pt  rry — Monthly  Concert  8  51 

«'     Donations  2  00 

Palmyra — Cont.  in    Cong.    ch. 

and  soc.    by    Rev.    Mr. 

Douglass  2  12 

<;     Nath.  Tenneyan  1838         2  00 
Pa  ssa  d  it  til;  rag — M  rs .  A  n  n  Law- 
ton  2  0( 
Prospect — Female  Miss.    Asso. 

Mrs.    Sarah   B.    Leach, 

Treas.  33  75 

■"     Subscriptions  in  Rev.  Mr. 

Thurston's  soc.  by  Rev. 

Mr.  Thurston  66  25 

Phillips— Cont.  in  Cong.  soc.       3  74 
"     Female  Miss.  Soc.    Mrs 

S.  C.  Fargo,  Treas.  2  00 

Portland— Asa  H.  Cutter  3  00 

"     J.  B.  Osgood  an  1839         2  00 

"     Mrs.  J.  B.  Osgood  an  '39    2  00 

"     Mrs.  Martha  F.  Trask  by 

Wm.  Swan  100  00 

"  Henry  Jackson  an  1839  2  00 
"  E.  Steele  an  1838  &  '39  4  00 
"  E.  C.  Stevens  an  do  2  00 
"  C.  G.  Downes  an  do  2  00 
"  John  Chute  an  do  2  00 
"     N.  Cross  an        do       2  00 

"  Edward  Howe  an  do  2  00 
"  James  Todd  an  do  2  00 
•«  Oliver  Everett  an  do  2  00 
"     Jos.     Adams       an    1838 

and  1839  4  00 

"     Alfred  Merrill  dona  2  50 

"     To  be  added   to    coll.  in 

3d  Cong.  soc.    (T.   B.)     2  50 
"     Female  Miss'y  Soc.  Mrs. 

Elizabeth  Greely,  Treas. 

to  constitute  Rev.  Jona. 

B.  Condit  and    his    wife 

life  members  68  25 

**     Missionary  Sewing  Circle 

Miss  Eliza  Merrill,  Sec. 

pro  tern,  to  be  applied  to 

benefit  the  Cong.   ch.  in 

Albany,  Oxford  Co.  93  02 

"     Sam'l  C.   Shapleigh  bal. 

of  sub.  2  50 


Amelia  Cutter  by  Rev    A 
Cummings  50 

Arternas  Carter  5  00 

N.  Cram  an  1838  2  00 
Ezekiel  Day  do  2  00 

John  Chute  do  2  00 

Jos.  M.  Gerrish     do  2  00 

Oliver  Everett  an  1837 
and  1838  4  00 

Thomas  Forsaith  an  1837  2  00 
E.  C.  Stevens  an  1838  2  00 
C.  G.  Downes     do  2  00 

Edward  Oxnard  an  ]836, 
'37,  &  '38  6  00 

Female  Cent  soc.  in  3d 
Cong.  Soc.  by  Mrs.  Chs. 
M.  Davis,  Tr.  9  04 

Nathaniel  Blake  an  1837 
&   '38  4  00 

Wm.  Lord  an  1838  2  00 

Curtis  Meservey  do  2 

Miss  Penelope  Martin  don  3 
Miss  Eliza  Martin  6 

James  Todd  an  1837  & 
1838  4 

James  M.  Dodge  dona  5 
Paul  E.  Merrill  an  183S  2 
Jeremiah  Stevens  do  2 
Gabriel  Mark  1  OR 

"From  a  Friend,"  10 

Wm.  C.Mitchell  an  1839    2 
Female  Miss.  Sewing  Cir- 
cle   Miss    Caroline     E. 
Merrill,  Treas.  to  const. 
Rev.  J.    B.    Condit,  3d 
time,    Mrs.    Condit    2d 
time   and    Mrs.    Wood- 
hull  life  members  100 
Cont.  in  2d  Parish  by  E. 
Wyer  85  14 
H.    Southgate    an    1837 
1838  and  '39  6 
Ladies  Sewing  Circle  in 
3d  Cong.  Soc.  Miss  Deb- 
orah Gordon,   Treas.  to 
const.  Mrs.  Sam'l  Clark, 
Mrs.  J.  B.  Osgood,  Mrs. 
Thomas   Stevens,   Miss 
Lucy  Noyes   and  Miss 
M.  Delano  life  members  100 
Cont.  in    3d   Cong.  Soc. 
by  John  Chute                  70  54 
Miss  A.  D.  Hall  to  be  ad- 
ded to  cont.                           1 
To  be  added  to    coll.  by 
J.  Libbey                             3  50 
$10  of  which  sums  is  in 


1! 


50 


2  31 


part    to    const    Edward 
Gould  a  L.  M. 
"     High   St.    soc   subs,  and 
conU.  by  J.  B.  Gardner  143 

«     Female  Miss.  So.  Mrs.E. 

Greeley,  Tr.  61  81 

Robbinston— From   subscribers 

by  hand  of  J.  M.  Balkam   5 
Rradjield— Mrs.  Margaret  Page 
towards   her   life  mem- 
bership by  Dr.  Gillett         1 
«     Mrs.    Margaret   Page    in 
part  to  const  herself  L.M.    2 
Raymond— A    Lady    by    Rev. 

Thomas  Williams  1 

Sanford— John  Frost,  2d 
St.   Mbans— "From   a    young 
man," 
«     Cont.  in  Rev.  Mr.  Doug- 
lass's soc 
Standish— Cont.  in   Cong,   soc 
Rev.  Mr.  Perry,  Pastor 
"     Rev.  Mr.  Perry  an  1838 
Sumner—  Increase  Robinson 

"     Individuals 
Strong — Female  Miss,  soc  Mrs. 
"  May,  Treas. 
«     Cont  in  Rev.  Mr.May's  so    6  64' 
South  Pans—  Leonard  ShurtlerT 

by  Alfred  Merrill 
South  Berwick— Her.  Andrew 

Rankin  sub 
Saco—  S.  L.  Goodale   to    const 
his    wife,    Mrs.    P.    A. 
Goodale,   a  L.    M.   by 
Rev.  A.  Cummings 
"     Benevolent  soc  of  first  ch 
and   parish  to  const  Jo- 
seph M.  Hayes,    James 
S.  Rumery   and  James 
Sawyer  life  members 
"     Cont.  after   annual   Ser- 
mon $20  of  which  was 
from     Miss     Maria    P. 
Griffith   of  Portland   to 
const  Rev.  J.  B.  Condit 
of  Portland  a  L.M.        141 
to  be  added  to  cont  Miss 
H 


2 
3 

12 

11  40 


P. 


10  50 


20 


63  6 


From  Mrs.  Lord  of  Ken- 

nebunk  port  to  be  added 

to  cont 
To  be  added  to  cont  after 

sermon 
Avails  of  a  gold  ring  to 

be  added   to  cont   after 

sermon 

6 


in 


"     Jona.  King  an  1839  2 

"     Benevolent  Soc.  of  first 
parish  by  S.  L.  Goodale  55 
Scarboro'— Mrs.  Seth  Storer  an 

1838 
■•«  do         do    don 

"     Cont  in  Rev.  Mr.   Jame- 
son's soc 
"     Cont.  in  do.  by  Rev.  Mr. 

Jameson 
"     Rev.    Mr.    Jameson    an 
1839 
Turner— John  Turner,    dona. 
by  Alfred  Merrill 
"     Cont.  in  Rev.  Mr.  Gree- 

ly's  Soc. 
"     Luther  Cary  an  1838  by 
|  Rev.  Mr.  Greely 

•<     Cong.  ch.  cont.    by    W. 
Goodenow 
Topsham — Cont.  in  Cong.  So. 
[Temple — Female    Aux'y  Miss. 
Soc.  Mrs.   Eliza  Scales, 
Tr.  in  part  to  const.  Jo- 
seph H.  Conanta  L.  M. 
Thomaston—  Mrs.Daniel  Vaug- 
han  dona   by    Rev.    A. 
Cummings 
"     Female  Miss.   Soc.  Mrs. 

H.  L.  Prince,  Tr. 
"     J.  S.  Abbot  to  const.  Ja- 
cob  Abbot  of  Farming- 
ton  a  L.  M. 
Hezekiah  Prince  dona 
J.  H.  Rivers 
David  Kellogg 
William  Cole 
Geo.  Robinson 
J.  Elliot,  jr. 
J.  M.  Gates 
John  Holmes 
R.  Woodhull 
Female  Miss.  Soc.   Mrs. 
H.  Prince,  TV. 
Cont.  in  Cong.  Soc. 
East  Thomaston— Cont.  inRev. 
Mr.  Fessenden's  Soc, 
«     A   Gentleman    by   Rev. 
Mr.  Fessenden 
Unity— Cont.  in  Cong,  soc 
Vassalboro—  Otis  Hnwes 
"     Soc  church  cont.  by  Rev 
Seth  Hardy 
IValpole— Cont.    by   Rev.    Mr 

Kendrick 
Winslow— Cont.  in  Cong.  soc. 
'«     Fred.  Paine  an  183S 


7 
24  6-1 


4  46 


18 


20 


06 


15 


in 


2 
3 
2 
1 
5 
2 

4  18 
6  82 


1 

2  74 

1  25 

2  32 

4  55 
4  75 
2 


42 


*«  "A  Friend"  in  part  to 
const  Miss  Emily  Bridge 
a  L.  M.  by  Rev.  Mr. 
Jewett  10 

"  From  a  friend  to  complete 
life  membership  of  Miss 
Emily  Bridge  10 

«<     Frederick  Paine  an  1839     2 

"  Cont.  in  part  by  F.  Paine  2 
IVinthrop — Stephen  Sewall  to 
const  Mrs.  Mary  Garland 
wife  of  Rev.  Edmund 
Garland  of  Ohio  a  L.  M. 
by  hand  of  Rev.  N. 
Douglass  20 

«     Daniel  Carr  an  1833  2 

"  B.  Southworth  by  Rev. 
D.  Thurston  4 

"     Contribution  12 

"  Female  Soc.  for  For.  and 
Dom.Miss.  Mrs.  E.  New- 
man, Tr.  by  Rev.  D. 
Thurston  1 7 

"     Miss  Lydia  Gushing  by 
Wm.  Hyde 
Woolwicli — From    Individuals 

by  Rev.  Mr.  Goss  3 

IVdd—S.  Holt  1 

"     Charles  Russel 

"     J.   Foster    by    Rev.   E. 
Fobes 
Waterford — Mrs.  Mary  Warren 
to  complete  her  lifemem- 
bership  15 

"  Avails  of  a  gold  necklace 
left  by  the  wife  of  Wil- 
liam Warren  by  Rev.  J. 
A.  Douglass  3 

"  Cont.  in  Rev.  Mr.  Doug- 
lass Soc.  20 

"  Henry  Sawin  and  wife  by 
Rev.  A.  Cummings  3 

West  Thomaston — From  an  un- 
known hand  in  a  letter 


45 


12 


per  mail,  dated  Jan.  31, 
1839,     coutaining     the 
following:  "Fifteen Dol- 
lars for  the  Maine  Mis- 
sionary   Society,    from 
West  Thomaston," 
Washington — From   people  by 
Rev.  Mr.  Carruthers 
"     People  in  Cong.  Soc. 
'     Avails  of  a  watch  by  Rev. 
J.  Carruthers 
Warren* — Cont.  in   Rev.   E.  F. 
Cutter's  Soc.  to   consti- 
tute James  Starret  a  life 
member 
"     Benevolent  Soc. 
"     Donation 
"     Jesse  Page  an  1838 
"     James  Starrett  an  1838 
"     Wm.  Hovey         do 
"     Lewis  Vaughan    do 
"     Rev.  E.F.  Cutter  do 
"     Mrs.  Cutter  do 

"     Benevolent  Soc  to  const 
Rev.  Philander  O.  Pow- 
ers and  wife  of  Broosa  in 
Asia  life  members 
"     Rev.  E.  F.  Cutter  sub 
Wilton— John  Barker  an  1838 
"     Elisha  Bass  " 

"     Female  Missionary  Socie- 
ety  in  part  to  const  John 
Perham  a  L.  M. 
Windham — Rev.  J.  W.    Shep- 
ard's  subscription 
"     Cont.  in  do.    by  hand  of 

Rev.  Mr.  Shepard 
"     Cont.  in  Rev.  Mr.  Shep- 
ard's  so 
JFe^s— Joseph  Gilmanan  1838 

by  Rev.  Mr.  Oliphant 
Windsor — Cong.    ch.   by  Rev. 

J.  Carruthers 
Waterville — Re  v.  Tho's  Adams 


lr> 


12 


22  10 
3  90 
3 
2 
2 
2 
2 
2 
2 


4  35 


9  35 


The  sums  in  the  foregoing  lists,  amount  to  $8495,72  1-2. 

W.  STORER,   Treasurer  M.  M  S. 
Portland,  July  1839. 


LIFE  MEMBERS. 


Abbott,  Mrs.  Betsey,  Weld, 

Abbott,  Miss  Salucia,  do. 

Abbott,  Miss  Clara  Ann  do. 

Abbott,  John  S.,  Thomaston, 

Abbott,  Mrs.  Eliza  T.,  do. 

Abbott,  Jacob,  Farmington, 

Adams,  Rev.  Thomas,  Augusta, 

Adams,  Mrs.  Catherine  L.,  do. 

Adams,  Rev.  Ceo.  E.,  Brunswick, 

Adams.  Mrs.  Sarah  A.,         do. 

Adams,  Rev.  Darwin,  Alstead,  N.  H. 

Adams,  Rev.  Charles  S. 

Adams,  Rev.  Weston  B.,  Lewiston, 

Adams,  Mrs.  Harriet  B.,  do. 

Adams,  Miss  Melinda  C,         do. 

Adams,  Rev.  Jonathan,  Deer  Isle, 

Adams,  John  Jr.,  Newrield, 

Adams,  Samuel,  Castine, 

Adams,  Mrs.  Lucy  S.,  do. 

Adams,  Rev.  Solomon,  Portland, 

Adams,  Mrs.  Adeline,         do. 

Adams,  Isaac  R.,  Farmington, 

Adams,  Eliashib,  Bangor, 

Allen,  Rev.  William,  D.  D.  N.  Hamp- 
ton, Mass. 

Allen,  John  Wheelock,  do. 

Allen,  William,  Norridgewock, 

Arnold,  Mrs.  Mary  Jane,  Bath. 

Auld,  Mrs.  Elizabeth,  Boothbay, 

Ayer,  Rev.  Thomas,  late  of  Albany, 

Baron,  E:  W.,  Lebanon, 

Barrows,  Reuel,  Fryeburg, 

Barrows,  Mrs.  Ann  K,  do. 

Barrows,  Mrs.  Ann  A.  do. 

Barrows,  John  S.,  do. 

Barrows,  —  son  of  Dr.  B.  do. 

Barrows,  George  B., 

Baker,  Edward  W.,  Portland., 

"Baker,  Azariah.  Edgecomb, 

Baker,  Rev.  A.  It.  Medfoid,  Ms. 

Baker,  Rev.  John,  Kennebunkport, 

Bailey,  Lebbeus ,  Portland, 

Barrett,  Amos,  Winthrop, 

Babcock,  Rev.  Elisha,  formerly  of  Wis- 
cassett, 

Bacon,  Rev.  Elisha,  Sanford. 

Bacon, —  son  of  Rev.  E.  B.  do. 

Bacon,  George,  Freeport, 

Bacon,  Mrs.  George  do. 

Beckwith,Rev.  George  C.  late  of  Port- 
land, 

Beckwith,  Mrs.  Martha  W.  do. 


Bcckwith,  Rev.  B.  B.  Castine, 
Belden,  Rev.  Jonathan,  Augusta, 
Bettes  Mrs.  Caroline  M.  Kennebunk, 
Bigelow,  Rev.  Asahel  Walpole,  Ms. 
Bishop,  Rev.  Nelson,  Clinton, 
Bixby,  George, 

Bond,  Mrs.  Sophia  E.,  Hallowell, 
Bond,  Elias,  do. 

Boynton,  Rev.  John,  Phipsburg, 
Boynton,  Rev.  Alden, 
Burr,  Rev.  Jonathan,  Boston, 
Bulfinch,  John,  Waldoborough, 
Bullard,  Rev.  Asa,  Boston, 
Bullard,  Mrs.  Asa,        do. 
Bumham,  Seth,  Kennebunkport, 
Burbank,  Jedediah,  Bethel, 
Burbank,  Mrs.  Frances  do. 
Buswell,  Henry  C,    Fryeburg, 
Buswell,  Mrs.  Elizabeth  O.  do. 
*Byram,  Mrs.  Lucretia  R.,  Portland, 
Blanehard,  Charles,  Blanchard, 
Blanchard,  Nath'l         do. 
Blanchard,  Sylvanus,  N.  Yarmouth, 
Blanchard,  Dorcas,  do. 

Blake,  Mrs.  Mary  C,  Bath, 
Blood,  Rev.  Mighill,  Bucksport, 
Blood,  Mrs.  do. 

Blodgett,  Bliss,  do. 

Bradley  John,  Portland, 

Bradley,  Mrs.  Catharine,    do. 
Bradley,  John  Jr.  do. 

Bradley,  Samuel,  Hollis, 
Bradley,  Rev.  Caleb,  Westbrook, 
^Bridge  James,  Augusta, 
Bridge  Miss  Emily,  do. 
Brown,  Amos.  Gorham, 
Brown,  Thomas,  Portland, 
Brown,  Mis.  Ann,     do. 
Brown  Theodore  S.,  Vassalboro,' 
Brown  Albert  G.,  do. 

Brown,  Mrs.  Mary  Ann,  do. 
Brown,  Samuel  J.  M.,  do. 
Brown,  Benj.  H.,  do. 

Brown,  Edward  P.  do. 

Brown,  Mrs.  Sarah  S.  do. 
Brown,  Benj.  do. 

Brown,  William  S.  do. 

Brown,  Rev.  George,  Mount  Desert, 
Brown,  Rev.  John  Croumbie,  St.  Peters- 
burg, Russia, 
Brown,  Mary  Lincoln,  Bangor, 
Brown,  Mrs.  Elizabeth,  Andover,  Mass. 


44 


Brown  James,  Danvers,  Mass. 
Brooks,  William  A.  Augusta, 
Campbell,  Rev.  George  W.  formerly  ol 

South  Berwick, 
Carlton,  Rev.  Isaac,  Lubec, 
Carlton  Isaac,  Bethel, 
Carpenter  Rev.Eber,  formerly  ol  York, 
Carruthers,   Rev.    James,   Portland,   7 

times, 
"Carruthers,  Mrs.  Robina,         " 
"Carruthers  Miss  Jane, 
Carruthers  Miss  Ellen,  " 

Cogswell  Rev.  Jonathan,  East  Windsor, 
Cogswell  Mrs.  J.  do. 

•Cook  Amos  J.  Fryeburg, 
Cook  Mrs.  E.  do. 

*Co©k  Francis,  Wiscasset, 
Coker  Stephen,  Alna, 
Colby  Joseph,  Fryeburg, 
Colby  Mrs.  Elizabeth,  do. 
Cole  Rev.  Albert,  Bluehill, 
Collins  Sally,  New  Gloucester. 
Condit  Rev.  Jona.  B.  Portland,  3  limes 
Condit  Mrs.  J.  B.  do.        2d  time, 

Conant  J.  H.  Temple, 
Cordis  Samuel,  Winthrop, 
Cornish  Rev.  Clark, 
Cummings  Rev.  Asa,  Portland,  2d  time, 
Cummings  Mrs.  Phebe,    do. 
Cummings  Henry  T.         do. 
Curtis  Samuel,  Wells, 
Cutter  Rev.  Edward  F:  Warren, 
Cushman  Rev.  Daniel,  Boolhbay , 
Clark  Rev.  William, 
Clark  Henry,  KeiiHebunkport, 
Clark  Mrs.  Eloisa  H  Wells, 
Clark  Miss  Lois,  Portland, 
Clark  Mrs.  Samuel,  do. 
Clark  Freeman,  Bath, 
Clark  Mrs.  Freeman,  do. 
Clapp  Mrs.  Jane  T.    do. 
Clapp  Mrs.  Rachel     do. 
Clapp  Charles,  Jr.      do. 
^Cleaves  Mrs.  Biddeford, 
Cleaves  Miss  Mary  do. 
Cleaveland  Prof.  Parker,  Brunswick, 
Chase  Stephen,  Fryeburg, 
Chase  Mrs.  Sarah,  North  Yarmouth, 
"Chapin  Rev.  Perez,  Pownal, 
Chamberlain  Benj,  P.Salem,  Mass. 
Chapman  Rev.Nath'l  Camden, 
Chandler  Samuel,  Elliot, 
Chickering  Rev.  John  W.  Portland,  2d 

tim6, 
Chickering  Mrs.  J.  W.  Portland, 
Child  James  L.  Augusta, 
Child  Mrs.  Jane  H.     do. 
Child  Daniel  C.  C.     do. 
Child  Eliza  Ann,        do. 
Church  Rev   A.  B.  Calais, 
Chute  Rev.  A   P. 
*Crosby  Rev.  John,  Gastine, 
Crosby  Mrs.  Hannah,  Bangor. 
Crossett  Rev.  R.  Dennvsville, 
Crossett  Mrs.  Dorothea,  do. 
Codman,  Mrs.  Lucrelia,  Portland, 


Dana  Nath'l  Bosiou, 

Davis  Rev.  Timothy,  Litchfield. 

Delano  Miss  M.  Portland, 

Deering  Steuben,  Augusta, 

Dickinson  John,  Amherst,  Mass. 

Dike  John,  Salem,  Mass. 

Dike  John,  Beverly,  do. 

Dinsmorc,  Wm.  W.  Norridgewock, 

Dodge  Mrs.  Jane  C.  Portland, 

Dole  Carleton,  Augusta, 

Dole  Ebenezer,  Hallowell, 

Dole  Henry  Lyman,  do. 

Dole  Samuel  Munson,  do. 

Dole  Mrs.  Hannah        do. 

Donnell  Mrs.  Harriet,  Bath, 

Dorrance  Oliver  B.  Portland, 

Dorrance  Mrs.  Jane         do. 

Douglass  Rev.  John  A.  Waterford, 

Douglass  Mrs.  Lucy  A.  do. 

Douglass  Miss  Ann.  Portland, 

Dow  Rev.  Moses,  formerly  ol  York, 

Downer  Mrs.  Mary  B.  Portland, 

Dummer,  Mrs.  M.  Jacksonville,  III 

Dummer  Mrs.  Sarah,  Hallowell, 

Duncan  Rev.  A.  G.  Brooks, 

Dunlap  David,  Brunswick, 

Dunlap,  Mrs.  Nancy  McKeen,  do. 

Duren  Freeman  Hyde,  Bangor, 

Dutlon  Samuel  P.  Bangor, 

Drake  Rev.  Samuel  S. 

D wight  Rev.  Wm.  T.  Portland, 

Dwight  Mrs.  Eliza  L.         do. 

Eaton  Rev.  Eben,  Mt.  Desert, 

Eastman  Mary  A,  North  Yarmouth. 

Ellis  Rev.  ftlanning,  Brooksville, 

Ellingwood  Rev.  John  W.  Bath. 

Ellingwood  Mrs.  John  W.     do. 

Elwell  Payne,  Waldoborough, 

Emerson  Rev.  Noah.  Baldwin, 

Fales  Oliver,  Thomaston, 

Fargo  Rev.  George  W.  Solon, 

Farley  Mrs.  Betsey,  Waldoborough, 

Fessenden  Rev.  Joseph  P.  Bridgton, 

Fessenden  Mrs.  Phebe,  do. 

*FessendenMrs.  Sarah,  Fryeburg, 

Fisk  Rev.  Charles  R.  Brewer, 

Fisk  Rev.  Albert  W.  Alfred. 

Fisher  Rev.  Jonathan,  Bluehill. 

Fisher  Rev.  Josiah, 

Fobes  Rev.  Epliraiin,  Weld, 

Fowler  Rev.  B.  Nortlifleld,  Mass. 

Foxcroft  Joseph  E.  New  Gloucester, 

Fuller  Rev.  Joseph, 

Fuller  Mrs.  Catharine,  Alfred, 

Flint  William,  New  Vineyard. 

Freeman  Rev.  Charles,  Limerick, 

Frost  Rev.  Charles,  Bethel, 

Frye  Isaac,  Fryeburg, 

Frye  Mrs.  Ann,  do. 

Gale  Rev.  Wakefield,  Gloucester,  Mass 

Gale  Mrs.  Mary  L.   do. 

Garland  Samuel,  Parsonsfield, 

Garland  John,  Newfield, 

Garland  Mrs.  Mary,  Ohio, 

Gillet  Rev.  Elipha'let,  I).  D.  Hallowell, 

Gillet  Mrs.  Mary  G.  do. 


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Oilman  Mrs.  Lucy  D.  Hallowell, 

Goss  Rev.  Jacob  C.  Woolwich, 

Gould  Mrs   Althea,  Portland, 

Gordon  Miss  Deborah,  do. 

Gooch  Rev.  James,  Hebron, 

Gove  Hartley  Wood,  Bath, 

Goodale  Mrs.  P.  A.  Saco, 

"Gleason  John,Thomaston, 

Green  Mrs.  Abigail  S.  Farmington, 

Greenleaf  Rev.  Jonathan.  New  York, 

Greenleaf  Rev.  Win.  C.  Andover. 

Green  Rev.  Beriah.  formerly  of  Kenne- 
bunk, 

Greely  Rev.  Allen,  Turner, 

Greely  Mrs.  Eunice  T.  do. 

'Greely  David,  Portland, 

Greely  Mrs.  David,  do. 

Gregg  Rev.  William. 

Greenwood  Mason.  Portland, 

"Greenwood  Mrs.  Maria,  do 

Greenwood  Miss  Maria  Isabella,  do. 

*Hale  Rev.  Jonathan  S.  Windham, 

Hale  John  M.  Ellsworth, 

Hale  Mrs.  Sarah  M.  do. 

Haskell  Wm.  B.  New  Gloucester,  Li- 
centiate, 

Hacket  Rev.  Simeon,  Temple, 

Hacket  Mrs.  Vesta,  do. 

Holcomb  Jonas  G.  Augusta, 

Hamlin  Hannibal,  Waterford, 

Hamlin  Miss  Fanny ,  Portland, 

Hamlin  Rev.  Cyrus,  Constantinople, 

Hancock  Elias,  Otisfield, 

Hardy  Rev.  Jacob,  Strong, 

Harlow  Nathaniel,  Bangor, 

Harlow  Mrs.  Mary     do. 

Harlow  Charles  VV.  do. 

Harlow  Sarah  P-         do. 

Harlow  Nath'l  Henry  do.' 

Harlow  Thomas  S.       do. 

Harrington  Enoch,  Freeport, 

Harrington  Mrs.  Enoch,  do. 

Hathaway  Rev.  George  W.  Bloomfield, 

Hawes  Rev.  J.  T.  Edgecomb, 

Hawes  Mrs.  Temperance,  do. 

Hayes  Joseph  M.  Saco,  2d  time, 

Hcyes  Mrs.  Susan,  do. 

Hiil  Mark  L.  Phipsburg, 

Hill  Mrs.  Abigail  S.  do. 

Hills  Rev.  Israel,  Lovell,  2d  time. 

Hills  James,  Cornville, 

Hills  Mrs.  Ann  B.  do. 

Hobart  Rev.  Caleb,  North  Yarmouth, 

Hobart  Mrs.  Sarah  Ann,     do. 

Hodgdon  Israel,  Parsonsfield, 

*Holt  Rev.  Fifield,  Bloomfield, 

Hopkins  Rev.  Samuel,  Saco, 

Hopkins  Mrs.  S.  do. 

How  Mrs   Susan,  Abbot, 

Hubbard  Rev.  Anson,  Monson, 

Hulin  Rev.  George  H. 

Hurd  Rev.  Carlton,  Fryeburg, 

Hurd  Mrs.  Sophronia  E.  do. 

Hurd  widow  Elisabeth,    do. 

Hyde  John  E.  Portland, 

Hyde  William  Henry,  do. 

Ingraham  Rev.  John  H.  Augusta, 


Ingraham  Mrs.  John  H.         do. 
Ingraham  Mrs.  Martha,  Portland, 
"llsley  Mrs.  Lucy,  do. 

Jackson  Rev.  Abraham,  Machias, 
Jackson  Henry,  Portland, 
Jameson  Rev.  Thomas,  Scarborough, 

Jenkins  Rev.  Charles,  Portland, 

enkins  Mrs.  A.  S.  L.  Greenfield,  Mass. 

ewett  Rev.  Henjy  C.  Winslow, 

ewett  Mrs.  Henry  C.         do. 

ewett  Jeremiah,  Alna, 

ames  Rev.  Elijah,  Minot, 

Johnson  Rev.  Samuel,  Augusta, 

ohnson  Mrs.  Samuel         do. 

ohnson  Samuel  W.  do. 

ohnson  Thomas,  Bremen, 
Johnson  Mrs.  Anna,  do. 
Kendrick  Rev.  Daniel,  Edgecomb, 
Kendrick  Mrs.  Sally  do. 

Kellogg  Rev.  Elijah,  Portland, 
Kellogg  Mrs.  Eunice      do. 
Keeler  Rev.  S.  H. 
Kent  Rev.  Cephas  H. 
Kidder  Mrs.  Elizabeth  E. 
Kimball  Rev.  Ivory,  Limington, 
Kimball  Mrs.  Ivory,         do. 
Kimball  Iddo,  Thomaston, 
Ladd  William,  Minot, 
Lane  Rev. Joseph, 
Lawton  Rev.  C.  J.  Prospect, 
*Lee  Samuel  C.  Calais, 
Leland  Dorcas  K.  Saco, 
Leland  Jane  M.  Bath, 
Lemont  Adam,      do. 
Lewis  Mrs.  Mary,  Portland, 
Lewis  Mrs.  Brewer, 
Lewis  Rev.  Wales,  East  Brewer, 
Libby  Joseph,  Portland, 
Libby  Mrs.  Lucy,  do. 
"Libby  Rev.  Daniel,  Dixfield, 
Lincoln  Geo.  Shepard,  Hallowell, 
Lincoln  Royal,  Portland, 
Little  Mrs.  Hannah,  Danville, 
Little  Rev.  Valentine,  Lovell, 
Littlefield  Samuel  B.  Wells, 
*Loomis  Rev.  Harvey,  Bangor, 
Loper  Rev.  S.  A.  late  of  Hampden, 
Long  Rev.  Joseph  A.  E.  N.  H. 
Lord  Mrs.  Phebe,  Kennebunkport, 
Lord   Miss    Susan,    (now    Mrs.    Clark, 

Nashua,) 
Lord  Mrs.  Lydia,  Kennebunkport, 
Lord  Mrs.  E.  L.  do. 

Lord  Daniel  W.  do. 

Lord  Charles  A.  New  York, 
Lord  Nathaniel ,  Rangor, 
Lord  Rev.N.  D.  D.  Hanover.  N.  H 
Lord  Thomas  N.  Hallowell, 
Loring  John,  Norridgewock, 
Loring  Rev.  Levi,  Athens, 
Loring  Desiah  B.  North  Yarmouth. 
Lovejoy  Rev.  Jos.  C.  Oldtown, 
Lovejuy  Mrs.  Sarah,         do. 
Lovejoy  Miss  Elizabeth,  Albion, 
Maltby  Rev.  J.  Bangor, 
Maltby  Mrs.  Margaret  M.  G.  do. 
"Marsh  Thomas  S.  Bath, 


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iVlarsh  Mrs.  Phcbe  C.  Portland, 
Marsh  Mrs.  Nancy  \V.  Biddeford, 
Marsh  Miss  Elizabeth  P.  Boston. 
Magoun  David  C.  Bath, 
Magoun  Mrs.  Hannah  C.  do. 
May  Rev.  William,  Strong, 
May  Mrs.  U.  M.  do. 

Martin  Miss  Penelope.  Portland, 
Marrett  Mrs.  Dorcas,  Standish, 
Masters  Mrs.  Caroline,  Topsham, 
Mather  Rev.  Win.  L.  Wiscasset, 
Mather  Mrs.  Amanda  P.     do. 
McKcen  Rev.  .Silas,  Belfast, 
McKeen  Mrs.  Hannah  J.  do. 
McDonald  John,  Bangor, 
McLellan  William.  VVarren, 
*McLellan  Bryce,  Bloomfield, 
*Mead  Rev.  Asa,  East  Hartford, 
Mead  Mrs.  Jane  G.  Gorham, 
Merrill  Rev.  Josiah  G.  Washington, 
Merrill  Rev.  Enos,  Alna, 
Merrill  Mrs   Hannah  A.  do. 
Merrill  ltev.  Stephen, 
Merrill  Rev.  Henry  A.Norwav, 
Merrill  Mrs.  Mehitable,  Portla'nd, 
Merrill  Miss  Sarah  H.         do. 
Miller  Joseph  R.  Kennehunk, 
Miller  Deborah,  Old  Town. 
Miltimore  Rev.  William,  JN.  H. 
Mitchell  Rev.  David  M.  Waldoboro' 
Mitchell  Mrs.  D.  M.  do. 

Mitchell  Miss  Sarah  Jane,  Andover, 
Mitchell  Miss  Lucretia  L.  Portland. 
Mitchell  Ammi  R.  Bath, 
Mitchell  Mrs.  Nancy  'P.  do. 
Mitchell  Jacob,  North  Yarmouth, 
Mosely  Mrs.  Nancy,  New  Gloucester, 
Morse  Samuel,  Waldoborough, 
Morse  Rev.  Stephen,  Biddeford, 
Moody  Mrs.  Sarah,  Hallowell, 
Munsell  Rev.  Jos.  R.  Brewer, 
Nason  Mark,  Augusta, 
Nason  Bartholomew,  do. 
Newell  Mrs.  Esther  M.  Durham, 
Newell  Rev.  Daniel,  formerly  of  Bridg 

ton, 
Newell  Rev.  Israel,  Durham, 
Norton  Winthrop  B.  Oxford, 
Norton  Charles  E.  South  Berwick, 
Nourse  Rev.  Peter,  Ellsworth, 
Noyes  Miss  Lucy,  Portland, 
Oliphant  Rev.  D.  formerly  of  Wells, 
Osgood,  Mrs.  Abigail,  Eryeburg, 
Osgood  Mrs.  Joshua  B.  Portland, 
Page  Rev.  Caleb  E.  Bridgton, 
*Page  Mrs.  Sarah  B.       do. 
Page  Benj.  K.  Hallowell, 
Page  Simon,  do. 

Page  Mrs.  Simon,    do. 
Page  John  Odlin,    do. 
Page  Rufus  K.         do. 
Page  Mrs.  Martha  H.  do. 
Page  Mrs.  Abigail  Neal,  Brunswick, 
Page  Jesse,  VVarren, 
Page  Rev.  Robert,  Levant, 
'Payson  Rev.  Edward,  D.  D.  Portland, 
Payson  Mrs.  Ann  L.  do. 


Payson  Miss  Louisa  S.         do. 

Palmer  Rev.  Ray,  Bith, 

Palmer  Mrs.  Ray,     do. 

Parker  Rev.  Wooster,  East  Brever, 

Parker  Rev.  Ereemau,  Wiscasset, 

Parker  Mrs.  Wealthy  Ann,  Castine, 

Parker  Edmund,  Amherst,  N.  H. 

Parker  Mrs.  Mary,  Bangor, 

Parker  Miss  Mary  H.  do. 

Packard  Rev.  H.  D.  D.  formerly  of  Wis 
casset, 

Parsons  Rev.  Eben  G.  Erceport, 

Paine  Zenas,  Buxton, 

Pearson  Paul,  Alna, 

Peters  Rev.  Absalom,  New  York, 

I'eet  Rev.  Josiah,  Norridgewock, 

Peet  Mrs.  Sarah  do. 

Peckham  Rev.  Samuel, 

*Perham  Rev.  John.  Industry, 

Pearl  Rev.  Cyril,  Gorham, 

Tike  Daniel,  Bangor, 

Pomeroy  Rev.  Thaddeus,  Gorham, 

Pomeroy  Mrs.  Emily  S.  M.     do. 

Pomroy  Rev.  Swan  L.  Bangor, 

Pomroy  Mrs.  Ann  Q.         do. 

Poland  Miss  Caroline  C  Portland, 

Potter  Miss  Caroline  C.  Augusta, 

Powers  Rev.  Philander  O.  Broosa, 

Powers  Mrs.  Philander  O.     do. 

Philbrook  Mrs.  Elizabeth,  Bath, 

Prince  Ezekiel,  Eastport, 

Prince  John  M.  Bangor, 

Prince  Mrs.  Hannah,  North  Yarmouth, 

*Quincy  Marcus,  Portland, 

Rankin  Rev.  Andrew,  South  Berwick, 

Reed  Isaac  G.  Waldoborough, 

Bice  Thomas,  Winslow, 

Rice  Mrs.  Thomas,  do. 

Rice  Rev.  Benj.  Buxton, 

Rice  Mrs.  Lucy       do. 

Rice  Win.  W.         do. 

Rice  Charles  Jenkins,  do. 

Richardson  Rev.  James  P.  Otisfield,  2d 
lime, 

Richardson  Mrs.  Mary,  do. 

Richardson  Mrs.  Eunice  T.  Sidney, 

Richardson  William.  Bath, 

*Richardson  Mrs.  William,  do. 

Richardson  John,  do. 

Richardson  Miss  Harriet  E.  do. 

Richardson  William  P.         do. 

Richardson  Henry  S.  do. 

Richardson  Mrs.  Hannah  T.  do. 

Richardson  Erederic  L.         do. 

Richardson  John  G.  do. 

Richardson  Mrs.  Maria,        do. 

Rielly  Miss  Margaret,  Portland, 

Ripley  Rev.  Lincoln,  Waterford, 

Ripley,  Mrs.  Phebe.  do. 

*Robie  Thomas  S.  Corham, 

Roberts  Rev.  Beimel,  late  of  Perry, 

Rogers  Rev.  Isaac,  Farmington, 

Rogers  Mrs.  E   E.  do. 

Rogers  Benj.  'P.  Providence, 
rRussell  Mrs.  Hannah, North  Yarmouth, 
JRumery  James  S.  Saco, 
ISawyer  Re*.  John,  Bangor, 


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Sawyer  James,  Saco, 

Saunders  Amos,  Waterford, 

Selden  Calvin,  Norridgewock, 

Seidell  i\] rs.  Harriet,     do. 

Seabury  David,  IN.  Yarmouth, 

Sewall    Rev.   Jotham,  (Jhesterville    M 
time, 

Sewall  Mrs.  Jenny,  do. 

Sewall  Henry,  Augusta, 

Sewall  Rev.  Samuel,  Sumner, 

Sewall  Matilda  J.  Winthrop, 

Sewall  Stephen,  do. 

Sewall  Mrs.  Stephen,  do. 

Sewall  Rev.  Jotham,  jr.  New  Castle, 

Sewall  Mrs.  Hannah,  Hallowell, 

Sikes  Rev.  Oren,  Mercer, 

Sikes  Mrs.  Julia  K.     do. 

Soule  Rev.  Charles,  Norway,  2d  time, 

Soule  Mrs.  Charles         do. 

Soule  Moses,  Freeport, 

Souther  Samuel,  Fryeburg, 

Souther  Mrs.  Mary     do. 

Souther  John  W.       do. 

Scales  Nath'l  Durham, 

*Scott  Rev.  Jonathan.  Minot, 

Shepley  Ether,  Portland, 

Shepley,  Rev.  David  North  Yarmouth, 

Shepley  Mrs.  Myn  N.         do. 

Shelden  Rev.  Nathan  \V.  Cray, 

Shelden  Rev.  Anson,  Robbiuston, 

Shelden  Mrs.  Susan,  Rumford, 

Shepard  Rev.  Ceorge,  Bangor, 

Shepard  Mrs.  G.  do. 

Shepard  Geo.  H.  do. 

Shepherd  Mrs.  Elizabeth  F.  Hallowell, 

Shepherd  George,  Lincoln, 

Sherman    Mrs.  Narcissa   B.  Columbia, 
Tenn. 

Smith  Rev.  Thomas  M.  Catskill,  N.  Y. 

Smith  William,  Kennebunkport, 

¥Smith  Rev.  Prof.  John,  Bangor, 

Smith  Rev.  Amasa,  Cumberland, 

Smith  Rev.  Daniel  P.  Parsonsfield, 

Smith  Mrs.  Mary  Jane         do. 

Smith  Isaac,  Portland. 

Smith  Rev.  Levi,  late  Kennebunkport, 

Smith  Mrs.  L.  VV.  do. 

Sprague  Mrs.  Mary,  Bath, 

Sprague  Peleg,  Jr.  do. 
Sprague  Wm.  B.  do. 
Sprague  Seth,  do. 

Sprague  Nancy  E.      do. 
Sprague  Harriet  E.    do. 
Sprague  Mrs.  Sarah,  Hallowell, 
Sproul  Mrs.  Jane,  Waldoborough, 
Starrett  Rev.  David,  Weld, 
Starrett  Calvin,  Washington, 
*Slarrett  George,  Bangor, 
Starrett  James,  Warren, 
Stallard  Thomas,  Portland, 
Stanwood  Miss  Susan,  AugustaJ 
Stevens  Rev.  Joseph  B.  Falmouth, 
Stevens  Mrs.  Lydia,  do. 

Stevens  Mrs.  Thomas,  Portland, 
Stevens  Miss  Lucy  A.        do. 
Steele  Rev.  M.  Machias, 
Stickney  Rev.  Moses  P.  Easlport, 


Stickney  William,  Hallowell, 
Stickney  Mrs.  Dorothy  U.  do. 
Stinson  Kev.  Hermon,  Weld, 
Stinson  Mrs.  Lucinda  VV.do, 
Storer  Woodbury,  Portland, 
Storer  M:s.  Mary  B.     do. 
Storcr  Seth.  Scarborough, 
Stone  Rev.  Samuel,  York, 
Stone  Kev.  Thomas  T.  East  Machias, 
Storrs  Rev.  Richard  S.  Braintree,  Mass 
Strickland  Micah  W.  Mt.  Desert, 
Strickland  S.  Wilton, 
Swan  William,  Portland, 
Swan  Mrs.  Mary,     do. 
Swan  Miss  Martha  E.  do. 
Swan  Mrs.  Mary,  Winslow, 
Sweetser  S.  North  Yarmouth, 
Sweetser  William,      do. 
Sweetser  Harriet  J.     do. 
Sweetser  Rev.  Seth,  Worcester,  Mas^ 
Sylvester  Samuel,  Bangor, 
Sylvester  Mrs.  Charlotte,  do. 
Talbot  Rev.  Samuel,  Wilton, 
Talbot,  Mrs.  Samuel,     do. 
Talbot  Peter,  Winslow, 
Tappan  Rev.  Benjamin,  D.  D.  Augusta, 
Tappan  Mrs.  Bcnj.  do. 

Tappan  Benj.  Jr.  do. 

Tappan  T.  L.  Winthrop,  do. 

Tappan  Elizabeth  T.  do 

Tappan  Jane  W.  do. 

Tappan  Mary  A.  do, 

Tappan  Catherine  H.  do. 

Tappan  Anna  W.  do. 

Tappan  Hannah  W.  do. 

Tappan  Dr.  E.  S.  do. 

Tappan  Rev.  Daniel  D.  Alfred, 
Tappan  Rev.  S.  S.  Frankfort, 
Tappan  Mrs.  E.  L.         do. 
Tappan  Mrs.  Abigail  M.  Winthrop, 
*Taylor  John,  Bath, 
Tenney  Rev.  Thomas,  Gorham, 
Tenney  Rev.  Sewall,  Ellsworth, 
Tenney  Mrs.  Sarah,  do.  2d  time, 

Tucker  Rev.  Josiah,  Madison, 
Tucker  Mrs.  Esther,    do. 
Turner  John,  Turner, 
Turner  Mrs.  Deborah,  do. 
Tewksbury  Rev.  Geo.  F.  Albany, 
Tyler  Rev.  B.  D.  D.  East  Windsor, 
Thatcher  George  A.  Warren, 
Thornton  Mrs.  E.  B.  Saco, 
Thompson  Edward,  Pownal, 
Thurston  Rev.  David,  Winthrop, 
Thurston  Mrs.  David,        do. 
Thurston  Rev.  Stephen,  Prospect, 
Thurston  Mrs.  Stephen,        do. 
Thurston  Rev.  E.  Hallowell, 
Thurston  Mrs.  Mary  Caroline, do. 
*Trauk  Mrs.  Martha,  Portland 
Trufant  Gilbert,  Bath, 
Upham  Prof.  Thomas  C.  Brunswick, 
Underwood  Rev.  Joseph,  New  Sharon, 
Vaill  Rev.  Joseph,  Brimfield,  Mass. 
Vaill  Mrs.  Joseph,        do. 
Vinton  Rev.  John  A.  New  Sharon, 
*Wales  Rev.  Nathaniel,  Belfast, 


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Walker  Oliver,  kennebunkport, 
Walker,  Mrs.  Eliza,  Fryeburg. 
Walker  Mrs.  Catherine,  do. 
Ward  Rev.  Stephen  D.Marhias, 
Warren  William,  Walerford, 
Warren  Samuel,  do. 

Warren  Mrs.  Mary,     do, 
Waterhouse  Mrs.  Ann  P.  Portland, 
Webster  Ebenezer,  Jr.  Cape  Elizabeth, 
Webster  Mrs.  Mary  Jane         do. 
Webster  William,  Fryeburg, 
Weston  Rev.  Isaac,  Cumberland, 
Weston  Rev.  James,  Lebanon, 
Weston  Mrs.  James,      do. 
Weston  Nathan,  Madison, 
Weston,  Benj.  Jr.    do. 
''Weston  Kev.  Daniel,  Gray, 
Weston  Mrs.  Jane  W.  Eastport, 
Weston  Mrs.  Ann  S.  Bangor, 
Weston  Mrs.  Sarah,  Fryeburg, 


Wilkins  Kev.  M.  Fairfield, 
Williams  Rev.  Thomas,  Poland 
Williams  Daniel,  Augusta, 
Williams  E.  B.         do. 
Williams  Mrs.  Hannah,  do. 
Williams  Miss  Helen,     do. 
Williams  Samuel, 
'•Wines  Rev.  Abijah,  Deer  Isle, 
Wines  Mrs.  Ruth,  do. 

Witherell  Rev.  Samuel  B. 
White  Rev.  Seneca, 
White  Rev.  Henry,  Jackson. 
White  Rev.  Calvin,  late  of  Cray, 
Whitney  Dr.  Baldwin, 
Whipple  Rev.  J.K.  late  of  Dixmont, 
Woodbury  Mrs.  Octavia,  Ponland, 
VVoodman  Benj.  Burlington, 
Woodhull  Kev.  R.  Thomaston, 
Woodhull  Mrs.  Sarah  F.  do 
Woodhull  Mrs.  Portland. 


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